American - Actor | May 12, 1959 -
I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.
Ving Rhames
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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.
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I graduated on a Friday. By Monday, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park.
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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.
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A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.
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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.
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I don't know if I hadn't grown up poor, and in the neighborhood I did, if I would have had that much to bring to my art form. I call upon my past with characters.
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I find it so strange that I throw people off-center.
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Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up... and look at ourselves. Sometimes that's an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain - both black America and white America - so we can finally find some racial harmony.
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Rottweilers are victims of a stereotype. They're not that bad.
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I've always been interested in cross-cultural exchange with the youth.
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I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds.
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