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
people
People often think I've played the villain more times than I have.
room slept until
My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.
basically type
'Mission: Impossible' is basically entertainment, and for what it is, it's fine. I don't think most actors become actors to do that type of film.
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.
few
In this industry, very few actors can control their career.
known laurence twenty
I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.
exchange interested
I've always been interested in cross-cultural exchange with the youth.
I'm the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film.
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.
base family life raise
I try to base my life on the principles of Christ. I try to raise my family on the principles of Christ. I don't know if that makes me religious.
allow approach
I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.
I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind.
god matter within
I think God has blessed each of us with at least one gift. So I think it's a matter of do we find it within our lifetime.
across almost bad classical lovable point richard
You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in 'Othello' or Richard III. He's doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It's like 'Pulp Fiction': Everybody's a bad guy, yet you like them.