Don Cheadle Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.