Don Cheadle Quotes

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• I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

  Don Cheadle

  Thinking

  The Tavis Smiley show, www.pbs.org. February 21, 2012.

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

  Don Cheadle

  Teacher, Trying, Example

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Don Cheadle

  I've Learned, Hundred, Knows

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Don Cheadle

  Realizing, Knows

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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

  Writing, People, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.

  Don Cheadle

  Should, Ripple

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Don Cheadle

  Real, Games, Leader

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• It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

  Don Cheadle

  People, Important, Helping

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Don Cheadle

  Real, Past, Thinking

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• It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

  Don Cheadle

  Responsibility, Firsts, Moral

  "Climate Champions speak out: Don Cheadle on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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

  Light, Needs, Attention

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

  Don Cheadle

  Friday, Night, Doors

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• I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.

  Don Cheadle

  Thinking, Family And Friends, Helping

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Don Cheadle

  Couple, Giving, People

  "Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Sir Ben Kingsley Talk IRON MAN 3, the Future of the Franchise, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 23, 2013.

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• And it's not just black people. That's the other thing about this issue, it's conflated with just black and white and it's not that at all. It's diversity, it's something that looks more like the landscape of the country. And it's not about then we get the statues we deserve, it's not that. It's that everyone should be able to participate in this silly contest, which is how I feel about it.

  Don Cheadle

  Country, Silly, Black And White

  "We talked to Don Cheadle about his new Miles Davis movie, biopics, and why he's not boycotting the Oscars". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. January 25, 2016.

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• If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

  Don Cheadle

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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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

  Thinking, Issues, Degrees

  Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.

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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

  Suffering, Sticks, Poor

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

  Don Cheadle

  Issues, Water, Scary

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.

  Don Cheadle

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Kids, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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

  Writing

  "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.

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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.

  Don Cheadle

  Winning, Ego, Important

  "We talked to Don Cheadle about his new Miles Davis movie, biopics, and why he's not boycotting the Oscars". Interview with Interview with, uk.businessinsider.com. January 25, 2016.

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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.

  Don Cheadle

  Black, Different, Actors

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• I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

  Don Cheadle

  Jail, Drug, Black

  "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.

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