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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.

Don Cheadle

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Don Cheadle
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 29
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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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Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.
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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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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 don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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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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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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I think having good family and friends really helps to ground 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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