Don Cheadle Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Don Cheadle

  Cat, Trying, Language

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Don Cheadle

  School, Sides, Comedy

  "Don Cheadle Talks IRON MAN 3, THE AVENGERS, HOUSE OF LIES, and His Miles Davis Biopic". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 22, 2011.

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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.

  Don Cheadle

  Men, Play, Black

  "Actor Don Cheadle". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. February 21, 2012.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.

  Don Cheadle

  Hate, Numbers, Interesting

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