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Ving Rhames

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 12, 1959

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

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The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

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My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

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'Mission: Impossible' is basically entertainment, and for what it is, it's fine. I don't think most actors become actors to do that type of film.

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If someone's intimidated by me, that's something they have to deal with. When I walk down the streets of New York and an old woman grabs her purse when I pass by, I'm not going to give it a whole lot of energy because I'm not in the wrong. I'm a millionaire, and I'm not thinking about grabbing an old woman's purse.

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Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, 'I did not choose acting; acting chose me.' I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football.

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In about 9th grade, an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school, so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Then I got accepted at the Julliard School, and by then, I was serious about it.

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I think God has blessed each of us with at least one gift. So I think it's a matter of do we find it within our lifetime.

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Really, if you get in the ring and box with someone for real, I don't think it is a sport. As far as professional fighters, you are literally putting your life on the line.

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

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People often think I've played the villain more times than I have.

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The character of the computer whiz is not one that would normally be associated with me.

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When I look at the world, I recognize that unfortunately, it sometimes takes an atrocity like 9/11 to force us to come together.

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Most American actors are taught the Stanislavsky method... Method acting, but I really think that as an actor you have to develop what works for you. There is really not one way of doing anything. There are many ways of achieving the same goal.

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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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In this industry, very few actors can control their career.

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I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.

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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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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.

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I'm from New York, and yet I've done only one film executive-produced by Spike Lee and have never done a film that Spike Lee directed. I've never done a film that Keenan Wayans has directed, or Bill Duke.

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