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Top 30 Don Cheadle Quotes (2025 Update)

Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.”

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

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Don Cheadle Quote: “I want to be a part of great things.”

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

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Don Cheadle Quote: “I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I’m sure I won’t.”

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

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

5. “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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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

6. “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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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.”

10. “People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “We’re really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.”

12. “We’re really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.”

13. “Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “I’ve been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.”

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

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?”

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

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “I don’t like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.”

19. “I don’t like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.”

23. “The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “It’s much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That’s hard if you don’t really feel that way.”

24. “It’s much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That’s hard if you don’t really feel that way.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

25. “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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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “If anyone ever said biopic I would say, “It’s not a biopic.” We’re fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don’t we just call it historical fiction?”

27. “If anyone ever said biopic I would say, “It’s not a biopic.” We’re fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don’t we just call it historical fiction?”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

28. “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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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

29. “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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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “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.”

31. “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.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “We’re always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don’t know if that’s going to change.”

32. “We’re always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don’t know if that’s going to change.”

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Don Cheadle Quote: “I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.”

33. “I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.”

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