Quotes from Don Cheadle

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

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 don't believe that the U.S. needs to take a police role. I think it needs to support African nations that have said they want to become a part of the solution.

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.

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.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

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

I want to be a part of great things.

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

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

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

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.

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.

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big.

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 has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.