Ving Rhames Quotes

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Ving Rhames

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 12, 1959

I've always been taught to just play the truth of the situation. If comedy comes out of that, or drama, whatever comes out of it, at least I'm playing the truth of the moment-to-moment reality.

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I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.

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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.

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My dogs are family dogs.

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Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, I saw something - I don't know what it was to this day. My mind couldn't relate to what it was... If I saw it and knew it was a shark, I wouldn't be as afraid, but I saw something that looked prehistoric, and I haven't been snorkeling since.

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I really feel that there are things in the ocean that we have no idea about.

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I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.

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How do you cut off the human side and just maintain being professional? So what I've done is I've incorporated that with Kojak - there's times when he allows the human condition, the human experience, to integrate into him as a professional.

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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.

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

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Miss Goodblatt would call on me to read. She said I had a talent. So on a whim, I auditioned for the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.

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I graduated on a Friday. By Monday, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park.

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I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

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My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

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I don't know if I hadn't grown up poor, and in the neighborhood I did, if I would have had that much to bring to my art form. I call upon my past with characters.

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I grew up in Harlem, and the kids used to tease me. You know that song 'Bingo'? Well, they used to sing, 'V-i-n-g-o, and Vingo was his name-o.'

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I find it so strange that I throw people off-center.

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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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Rottweilers are victims of a stereotype. They're not that bad.

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I've always been interested in cross-cultural exchange with the youth.

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