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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle
Total Quotes 34
Once The Steam Engine Went Away And We Started Moving Into Burning Fossil Fuels - Not Just Burning Them, But Everything We Do With Oil - We've Been Experiencing [these Problems] At An Accelerated Rate. The Scary End-game Scenario Is Getting Closer And Closer, About What We're Going To Be Able To Do To Sustain Life On This Planet As We Have Come To Know It. And I Think This Is A Very Real Possibility, That We Could Be Dealing With Conditions We Have No Idea How To Wrestle With.
Real
Moving
Thinking
There Are Things That Are Happening Way Earlier Than That When It Comes To Someone Deciding Whether They're Going To Spend X Amount Of Millions Of Dollars On A Movie. I Want $100 Million Success. The Moviegoer Is The Person I'm More Interested In Than The Academy.
Dollars
Want
Oscars
I'm Trying To Steal From Everybody. So Yeah, There's Cats That I'm Personally Affiliated With - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson - And Others That I Don't Know Personally But Their Work I'm A Big Admirer Of, Like Martin Scorsese. But I'm Hoping To Come Up With A Language That Is Mine, That's Specific To My Take On This Material.
Cat
Trying
Language
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.
Way
Scripts
Kind
I Want To Be A Part Of Great Things.
Want
Great Things
I've Been Doing This Since I Was 10 Years Old, Inhabiting Different People And Playing Different Roles.
Years
People
Different
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.
People
Theatre
Want
Yeah! I Went To The Set Of Monuments Men.
Men
Yeah
Monument
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.
Hate
Numbers
Interesting
Kids Clearly Help Center You Because You Can't Impress Your Kids. People Are Like, "oh, Are They So Excited Because You're Ironman?" My Kids Couldn't Care Less. They Like It When I Hang Out And Play Dad. I Impress Them By Playing Video Games With Them And Doing Well. Your Kids Humble You.
Dad
Humble
Kids
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.
Real
Issues
Film
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.
Thinking
Two
Yeah
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.
Wall
Men
Years
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.
Men
Play
Black
I Don't Know What Would Be Antithetical To Do On The Other Side, Maybe A Tyler Perry Movie Or Something. No, There Are Very Few Comedies That Live In Between That. Or You're Doing Some Kid Thing Like A Jim Carrey Movie With Animated Something That's Like That. Yeah, I've Wanted To Do Them. I Like Doing Them. I Did Talk To Me. That Was Pretty Much A Comedy.
Kids
Would Be
Sides
Comedies Are Very Hard To Do. They Are Difficult. Unless There's The Judd Apatow School, Where They're Like Okay, We Know That, We're Going To Do Those. Or Unless It's Something That's Far To The Other Side.
School
Sides
Comedy
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.
Rapper
Ideas
Records
Many Of My Friends And Family Are Scratching It Out Somewhere Decidedly South Of The Ever Widening Gap Between The Haves And Have Nots, Looking At Losing Their Homes, Colleges They Can't Afford And Healthcare They Can't Avail Themselves Of.
Home
College
Family And Friends
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.
Talking
People
Voting
People Have Always Been Obsessed By Celebrities. There Are Just More Outlets And Opportunities To Make A Living Exploiting That Obsession Nowadays.
Opportunity
People
Obsession
I Started Following The News And Seeing What Was Happening Around The World With The Polar Ice Caps Melting And Temperatures Breaking Records. I Became Concerned As An Animal On This Planet But Also As A Father.
Father
Animal
Ice
I Prefer Film To Tv Because Of The Amount Of Time Film Affords You That Tv Doesn't (though Theater Is Probably My Favorite And The Scariest Place Of All).
Tvs
Film
My Favorite
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.
Ocean
Kids
Impact
I Was Brought Into The Curiosity Of It Because With Sony Pictures Classics, Which Bought The Movie, They Look Into What The Feedback Is And Base That Off Of How They Release It, And You End Up Hearing The Feedback And Getting That Early Talk. So The Reviews Early On That Were "bad Reviews," They Were Kind Of Reviewing Another Movie.
Curiosity
Looks
Hearing
Born: November 29, 1964
Occupation: Actor
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