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Ving Rhames


American
May 12, 1959
Actor
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I live a very simple life.


Ving Rhames
Tags: Life Very Live
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I've always been interested in cross-cultural exchange with the youth.


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I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.


Ving Rhames
Tags: Never Got Saw
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We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.


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I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.


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Tags: Me Like Say
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I graduated on a Friday. By Monday, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park.


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Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.


Ving Rhames
Tags: Ever Done Living
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The character of the computer whiz is not one that would normally be associated with me.


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I'm the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film.


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Tags: Than Make Most
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You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am.


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Tags: God You Who
There's really not that much difference between you and I. And my name really doesn't matter. Hopefully, my heart and my spirit matters to you. Hopefully.
Ving Rhames
Tags: You Really Much
When I think of the trials and tribulations that black men go through in America and that black artists went through, I feel very privileged.
Ving Rhames
Tags: Men Think Very
A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.
Ving Rhames
Tags: More Out Way
I never grew up thinking I wanted to be a quote-unquote star or anything. My thing was just feeling blessed to be able to make my living acting.
Ving Rhames
Tags: Just Up Never
'Mission: Impossible' is fun. But for myself as an artist, I'm really more concerned with the human condition, the human experience, especially from an African American point of view.
Ving Rhames
I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds.
Ving Rhames
Tags: Travel Up Very
I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.
Ving Rhames
Tags: Time Never How
Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up... and look at ourselves. Sometimes that's an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain - both black America and white America - so we can finally find some racial harmony.
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Tags: You Up Go