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I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.
Don Cheadle
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Don Cheadle
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 29
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You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.
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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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There are things that are happening way earlier than that 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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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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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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Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.
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I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson - and others that I don't know personally but their work I'm a big admirer of, like Martin Scorsese. But I'm hoping to come up with a language that is mine, that's specific to my take on this material.
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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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I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.
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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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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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I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were bad reviews, they were kind of reviewing another movie.
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