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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: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 29
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We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
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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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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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I think having good family and friends really helps to ground 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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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 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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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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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'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 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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I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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