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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.

Don Cheadle

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Don Cheadle
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 29
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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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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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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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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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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 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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You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.
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I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.
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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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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 don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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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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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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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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I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.
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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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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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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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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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