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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.

Don Cheadle

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Don Cheadle
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 29
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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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I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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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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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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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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Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.
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I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.
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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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Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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