Ving Rhames Quotes

I recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.

I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

There's so many things I want to accomplish in the world of acting. But, the two most important are that I want to keep paying the bills and I want to get better. That's about it. I enjoy what I do. I'll stay busy. I've been lucky.

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

Like many actors, I'm very grateful, I feel very fortunate, very lucky to be able to make a living with what I do and what I love. I'm surprised and grateful all the time.

I hope I have quite a few great roles to come.

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.

I'm an actress who likes to work as much as possible, so I'm very grateful for all these opportunities.

I'm a working actor, and I want to stay a working actor, and I want everybody happy.

I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

Coming back to 'New Girl' was a real reminder of how lucky I am to be on a popular network TV show.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'

Leonardo Dicaprio didn't change his name, Emilio Estevez didn't change his name. But every case is different. I only have one reference of what my career was and I was very, very blessed and very, very lucky, and it got started very quickly after college. And I only know that by going with Roday.

I have actually been very blessed in my career.

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

I've been a very lucky actor.