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

Don Cheadle

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Don Cheadle
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 29
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Poker Player
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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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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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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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Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.
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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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I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.
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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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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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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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I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.
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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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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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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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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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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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Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
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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 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 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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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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