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31 quotes by Don Cheadle

Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle, Jr. (/ˈtʃiːdəl/; born November 29, 1964) is an American actor. Cheadle had an early role in Picket Fences and followed it with performances in Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Rosewood (1997) and Boogie Nights (1997). He then started a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the movies Out of Sight (1998), Traffic (2000) and Ocean's Eleven (2001). Other Cheadle films include The Rat Pack (1998),...
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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... →

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

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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.

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

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I want to be a part of great things.

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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.

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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... →

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For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I... →

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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.

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President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and... →

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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... →

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But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

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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.

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