Ving Rhames Quotes

I'm a God-fearing man, and I know the only reason why I am here going from poverty to where I am now is God has His hand on my life. I tell people, 'I didn't choose acting; God chose me to act.'

Ving Rhames

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 12, 1959

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As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.

Jim Cummings

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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.

Mel Brooks

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I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.

Johnny Colt

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In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

Amy Chua

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If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.

Sue Johanson

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It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Roger Ebert

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Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

Rob Lowe

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I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.

Lorenzo Snow

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I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Jonathan Kozol

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Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Jonathan Sacks

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I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Dolly Parton

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