Ving Rhames Quotes (8 Quotes)

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.

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.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I'd like to give this to you, Mr. Jack Lemmon,

My wife is a former homicide detective, LAPD. The wonderful thing that I was able to capture is my wife's experiences from human and professional and how do you deal with some of the atrocities that happen in LA and not bring them home. How do you cut off the human side and just maintain being professional

Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.

I think God has blessed all of us with at least one gift, so I think it's just a matter of do we find it within our lifetime

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.