Ving Rhames Quotes
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.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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I don't care if you marry someone who works at the grocery store or someone who is a director of a company; everyone should have their own identity.
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He allowed us to choreograph the sex scenes.
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There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?
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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. 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.
