Latest Don Cheadle Quotes from Interviews

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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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

  Don Cheadle

  Dad, Humble, Kids

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to do to sustain life on this planet as we have come to know it. And I think this is a very real possibility, that we could be dealing with conditions we have no idea how to wrestle with.

  Don Cheadle

  Real, Moving, Thinking

• I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all these things that human beings are having negative impacts on at this time, are concerning to me. I wanted to do whatever I could to be a part of the solution and not just be a part of the problem.

  Don Cheadle

  Ocean, Kids, Impact

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Don Cheadle

  Cat, Trying, Language

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Don Cheadle

  Dollars, Want, Oscars

  "Don Cheadle’s Idea for Fixing the Oscars". Interview with Katey Rich, www.vanityfair.com. January 23, 2016.

• We're not talking about you scored more points than me and I know that you won and I lost, those are clear results. This is about people's opinions and their subjective takes on things, people that sometimes haven't seen all of the movies they're voting on.

  Don Cheadle

  Talking, People, Voting

  "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.

• 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?

  Don Cheadle

  Fighting, Historical, Fiction

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

• 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.

• 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.

  Don Cheadle

  Curiosity, Looks, Hearing

  "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.

• I think if you're going to read reviews, you have to just concede that they are all right. And I think I read two very diametrically opposed reviews about my movie and I had to go, yeah, I agree with both of them.

  Don Cheadle

  Thinking, Two, Yeah

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

• 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.