Don Cheadle Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I want to be a part of great things.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 can hopefully do something with.”

“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.”