Don Cheadle quotes

Born
November 29, 1964, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.

Occupation
Actor.

Don Cheadle is an American actor.

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

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

I don’t like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
– Don Cheadle

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

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won’t understand that these people are you and you are them.
– Don Cheadle

I want to be a part of great things.
– Don Cheadle

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

It’s great to be in a film that’s able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.
– Don Cheadle

Living by example – that’s always a better teacher than trying to preach.
– Don Cheadle

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.
– Don Cheadle

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

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.
– Don Cheadle

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

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

I’ve been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.
– Don Cheadle

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

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

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend’s back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
– 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

But I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.
– Don Cheadle

We’re trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
– Don Cheadle

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 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

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 always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don’t know if that’s going to change.
– Don Cheadle

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

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