Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames
Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhamesis an American actor best known for his work in Bringing Out the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Out of Sight, Baby Boy, Don King: Only in America, Dawn of the Dead, Rosewood, Con Air, and as Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 May 1959
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Ving Rhames quotes about
choose chose grew honestly quite wanting
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.
name spirit
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.
acting interested junior playing seriously sports until
I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.
call miss performing school
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.
graduated since
Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.
associated normally
The character of the computer whiz is not one that would normally be associated with me.
kids life trying
We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.
atrocity takes
When I look at the world, I recognize that unfortunately, it sometimes takes an atrocity like 9/11 to force us to come together.
apple king
Don King is as American as apple pie. He is America.
entertainment
Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.
richard
I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.
graduated shakespeare
I graduated on a Friday. By Monday, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park.
feeling grew living star
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.
ocean
I really feel that there are things in the ocean that we have no idea about.