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.
From Ving Rhames
I'm the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film.
I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.
The training at Juilliard School is classical training, and it really makes one very versatile.
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.
I'm from New York, and yet I've done only one film executive-produced by Spike Lee and have never done a film that Spike Lee directed. I've never done a film that Keenan Wayans has directed, or Bill Duke.
I've always been taught to just play the truth of the situation. If comedy comes out of that, or drama, whatever comes out of it, at least I'm playing the truth of the moment-to-moment reality.
I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.
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.
My dogs are family dogs.
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