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Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

Don Cheadle

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Don Cheadle
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 29
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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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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 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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Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.
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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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I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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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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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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I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.
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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 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'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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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'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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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 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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You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.
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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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