104 Quotes by 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.

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.

Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that’s wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.

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.

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

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.

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

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.