Top Don Cheadle Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Don Cheadle Biography

Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. (/ˈtʃiːdəl/; born November 29, 1964) is an American actor, writer, film producer and director. He had an early role in Hamburger Hill (1987), before building his career in the 1990s with performances in Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Rosewood (1997) and Boogie Nights (1997). He started a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the films Out of Sight (1998), Traffic (2000) and Ocean's Eleven (2001). Other films include Volcano (1997), The Rat Pack (1998), Things Behind the Sun (2001), Swordfish (2001), Crash (2004), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Reign Over Me (2007), Talk to Me (2007), Traitor (2008) and The Guard (2011). Cheadle co-wrote, directed and starred in Miles Ahead (2015), based on the life of jazz musician Miles Davis. He has played the superhero War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films since 2010.

Read about Don Cheadle in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Don Cheadle Quotes

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.

Black And White, Conflated, Country, Issue, Silly

It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you don't really feel that way.

Cry, Hard, Laugh, Laughing, Way

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

Carefully, Chose, Future, Words, Write, Writing

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

Family And Friends, Friends, Good, Helping, Think, Thinking

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.

Concede, Read, Right, Thinking, Two, Yeah

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

Climate, Climate Change, Discuss, Way

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

Intoxicating, Somebody, Think, Thinking, Unapologetically

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.

Answer, Directors, Ego, Important, Thing, Winning

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.

Beings, Concerning, Impact, Kids, Ocean

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Different, Inhabiting, Old, People, Years

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

Celebrities, Obsessed, Obsession, Opportunity, People

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?

Important, Kids, Know, Thinking, Watching

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.

People, Results, Takes, Talking, Voting

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.

Bump, Past, People, Real, Thinking

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

Couple, Enjoyment, Give, Giving, People

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.

Against, Bar, Believe, Men, Thinking

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.

Games, Good, Leader, Planet, Pointing, Real

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

Men, Monument, Monuments, Yeah

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.

Attention, Light, Microphone, Needs

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.

Past, Problem, Think, Thinking, Years

1