A biography for Ving Rhameshasn’t been written yet.
“In this industry, very few actors can control their career.”
“'Mission: Impossible' is fun. But for myself as an artist, I'm really more concerned with the human condition, the human experience, especially from an African American point of view.”
“We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.”
“You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am.”
“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.”
“It's really how you deal with people. Do people respect you? Are you honest with people even if it's something they don't want to hear? Anyone in Hollywood will tell you I'm extremely up front and honest almost to a fault.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The training at Juilliard School is classical training, and it really makes one very versatile.”
“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.”
“Really, if you get in the ring and box with someone for real, I don't think it is a sport. As far as professional fighters, you are literally putting your life on the line.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Don King is as American as apple pie. He is America.”
“I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.”
“I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.”
“Rottweilers are victims of a stereotype. They're not that bad.”
“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.”
“My wife is a former homicide detective, LAPD. The wonderful thing that I was able to capture is my wife's experiences from human and professional, and how do you deal with some of the atrocities that happen in L.A. and not bring them home.”
“My dogs are family dogs.”