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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.'
— Ving Rhames
I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.
— Ving Rhames
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.
— Ving Rhames
I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.
— Ving Rhames
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.
— Ving Rhames
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.
— Ving Rhames
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.
— Ving Rhames
I'm the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film.
— Ving Rhames
When I think of the trials and tribulations that black men go through in America and that black artists went through, I feel very privileged.
— Ving Rhames
There could be some unknown actor who's a better actor than Ving Rhames, but no one knows that actor, so Ving Rhames will get the job.
— Ving Rhames
You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am.
— Ving Rhames
I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.
— Ving Rhames
I live a very simple life.
— Ving Rhames
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.
— Ving Rhames
It can always get worse.
— Ving Rhames
God has blessed me with a certain amount of presence and a certain amount of charisma.
— Ving Rhames
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.
— Ving Rhames
The training at Juilliard School is classical training, and it really makes one very versatile.
— Ving Rhames
I find it so strange that I throw people off-center.
— Ving Rhames
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.
— Ving Rhames
Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.
— Ving Rhames
Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.
— Ving Rhames
When I look at the world, I recognize that unfortunately, it sometimes takes an atrocity like 9/11 to force us to come together.
— Ving Rhames
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.
— Ving Rhames
God is putting me in a position to affect people.
— Ving Rhames
I never grew up thinking I wanted to be a quote-unquote star or anything. My thing was just feeling blessed to be able to make my living acting.
— Ving Rhames
'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.
— Ving Rhames
Don King is as American as apple pie. He is America.
— Ving Rhames
The character of the computer whiz is not one that would normally be associated with me.
— Ving Rhames
My dogs are family dogs.
— Ving Rhames