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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.
Don Cheadle
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Don Cheadle
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 29
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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.
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I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.
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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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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 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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I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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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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Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
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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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