“All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be ...” — Ving Rhames Quote

“All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.”

“I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.”

“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.”

“You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.”

“Doing your job requires different modes, and you can't just be stuck in one mode where you're always the shrill outsider screaming at everybody.”

“Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down.”