Ving Rhames famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.
-- Ving Rhames

#Being Positive #Foundation #Streams
For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
-- Ving Rhames

#People #Acting #Stories
The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
-- Ving Rhames

#Differences #Lunch #Quality
I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.
-- Ving Rhames

#Blessed #Struggle #Actors
I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.
-- Ving Rhames

#Acting
I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.
-- Ving Rhames

#Children #Media #Poverty
I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.
-- Ving Rhames

#Giving #Limits #Hollywood
Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.
-- Ving Rhames

#Deals #Intimidated
You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.
-- Ving Rhames

#Doing What You Love #Dollars #Million Dollars
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. 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.
-- Ving Rhames

#Football #Teacher #Art
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

#Mother #Hurt #Brother
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.
-- Ving Rhames

#Character #Actors #Roles

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