Don Cheadle famous quotes

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.
-- Don Cheadle

#Thinking

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.
-- Don Cheadle

#Couple #People #Giving

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Real #Past #Thinking

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Laughing #Way #Cry

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Friday #Night #Doors

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Country #War #Two

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Character #Black #Roles

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#People #Theatre #Want

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
-- Don Cheadle

#Men #Yeah #Monument

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?
-- Don Cheadle

#Climate #Way #Climate Change

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.
-- Don Cheadle

#Years #People #Different

I want to be a part of great things.
-- Don Cheadle

#Want #Great Things

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Believe #Men #Thinking

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.
-- Don Cheadle

#Opportunity #People #Obsession

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Father #Animal #Ice

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Jail #Drug #Black

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
-- Don Cheadle

#Writing

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Home #College #Family And Friends

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Men #Play #Black

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Rapper #Ideas #Records

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Artist #Trying #Canvas

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Wall #Men #Years

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Real #Issues #Film

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Way #Scripts #Kind

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
-- Don Cheadle

#Trying #Feels

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Hate #Numbers #Interesting

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Black #Different #Actors

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).
-- Don Cheadle

#Tvs #Film #My Favorite

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Thinking #Looks #Maps

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.
-- Don Cheadle

#Thinking #Issues #Degrees