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
richard
I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.
god putting
God is putting me in a position to affect people.
amount certain god
God has blessed me with a certain amount of presence and a certain amount of charisma.
entertainment
Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.
apple king
Don King is as American as apple pie. He is America.
grew kids
I grew up in Harlem, and the kids used to tease me. You know that song 'Bingo'? Well, they used to sing, 'V-i-n-g-o, and Vingo was his name-o.'
god
You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am.
dollars love million success
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.
children media poverty
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.
deals ifs intimidated
Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.
giving limits hollywood
I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.
football teacher art
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.
acting whim english-teacher
I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.
blessed struggle actors
I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.