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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?

Don Cheadle

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Don Cheadle
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 29
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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'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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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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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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You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.
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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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I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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