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• The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

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• Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

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• 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.

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• My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I’m doing my autobiography, I’m playing a character.

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• I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

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• 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.

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• I don’t give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I like to say that I didn’t choose acting – acting chose me.

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• 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.

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

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Ving Rhames (12)

Birth:	12th May, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames is an American actor best known for his work in Bringing Out the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Baby Boy, Don King: Only in America, Dawn of the Dead, Con Air, the Mission: Impossible film series and the Syfy movie 2012 Zombie Apocalypse.

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Births

• 1935 - Shusha Guppy
• 1848 - Walter Brandon Thomas
• 1944 - Mike Curb
• 1929 - Mary Higgins Clark
• 1932 - Cynthia Payne

Deaths

• 1959 - William Cameron Forbes
• 1863 - William Makepeace Thackeray
• 1881 - Leonard Bacon
• 1934 - Alban Berg
• 1982 - Louis Aragon