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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
-
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
-
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.
-
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
-
I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
-
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
-
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
-
I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
-
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.
-
If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
-
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.
-
I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
-
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
-
I'm really inspired right now by a lot of the actors and actresses who are pursuing storytelling outside of just acting. They're writing, producing, they are creating their own material. That's really exciting to me. It feels like the possibilities are endless as far the things that you can make and even where they can be shown.
-
Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that's hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag.
-
I remember feeling a huge amount of anxiety and worry and pressure. At that point I was headed into acting school. That was 100 percent the only thing I thought I wanted to do. But then I got through my first year of college, and I was, like, humming and rolling around, pretending to be a lion in acting classes at NYU and visiting our classmate Charlie Gregg at Harvard, where he was actually learning things. So I changed my mind: I decided I actually wanted a different kind of education, and that was an incredibly freeing idea.
-
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
-
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
-
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.
