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Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.
Don Cheadle
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Don Cheadle
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 29
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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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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.
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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.
Don Cheadle
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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You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.
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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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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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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 about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
Don Cheadle
We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.
Don Cheadle
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 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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Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
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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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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.
Don Cheadle
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.
Don Cheadle
I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.
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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 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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