Top 59 Don Cheadle Quotes
#1. I enjoy where I am and I don't have a problem with being Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Don Cheadle, or Jeffrey Wright. They're not the lead of every movie they're in, but every time you see them they're really good.
Anthony Mackie
#2. I've always loved Don Cheadle and Jeffery Wright and even Sam Jackson.
Andre Royo
#3. Don Cheadle is up there for me. I've met him; he's a cool little dude. I admire his work.
Dule Hill
#4. Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
Brian J. White
#5. If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.
Don Cheadle
#6. Kids clearly help center you because you can't impress your kids. People are like, "Oh, are they so excited because you're Ironman?" My kids couldn't care less. They like it when I hang out and play dad. I impress them by playing video games with them and doing well. Your kids humble you.
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#7. Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
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#8. Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.
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#9. I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.
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#10. Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.
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#11. Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.
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#13. It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you don't really feel that way.
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#14. But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.
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#15. If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?
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#16. I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.
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#17. We're not talking about you scored more points than me and I know that you won and I lost, those are clear results. This is about people's opinions and their subjective takes on things, people that sometimes haven't seen all of the movies they're voting on.
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#18. I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.
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#19. I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
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#20. Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.
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#21. I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.
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#22. No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big.
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#23. We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.
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#24. I don't believe that the U.S. needs to take a police role. I think it needs to support African nations that have said they want to become a part of the solution.
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#25. For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.
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#26. It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.
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#27. I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.
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#28. I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
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#29. But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.
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#30. Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.
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#31. Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?
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#32. People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.
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#33. I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.
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#34. I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.
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#35. We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.
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#36. There are things that are happening way earlier than [the Oscars] when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie.I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.
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#37. It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.
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#38. I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?
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#39. I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.
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#40. When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.
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#41. I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).
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#42. I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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#43. So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
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#44. It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.
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#45. President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.
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#46. The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.
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#47. Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.
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#48. I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it.
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#49. I started following the news and seeing what was happening around the world with the polar ice caps melting and temperatures breaking records. I became concerned as an animal on this planet but also as a father.
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#50. The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.
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#51. One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.
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#52. If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.
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#54. I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.
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#55. I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
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#56. I think if you're going to read reviews, you have to just concede that they are all right. And I think I read two very diametrically opposed reviews about my movie and I had to go, yeah, I agree with both of them.
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#57. It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.
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#58. You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.
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#59. We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
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