Ving Rhames Quotes

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

It's amazing how uncreative some people can be in this industry. They look at you and go, 'She's not right for the role'... but you've got to give someone a chance to show they're an actress. It's very frustrating.

My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.

The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.

Even after 'Gangster' being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.

I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League.' When that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.

Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.

Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You will always be dealing with it. You're an actor who used to be a model who never trained; there are not many directors queuing up.

As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.

It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Casting directors don't necessarily want a more recognizable commercial face. Sometimes, they want a lesser known person.

It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.

Once people see you pulling off one role, they think you're a safe bet to do a similar role.

Nobody knows my name. Nobody knows me at all, but they call me by the character of the last movie that I was in.