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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.

~Don Cheadle

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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.

~Don Cheadle

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The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.

~Don Cheadle

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

~Don Cheadle

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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.

~Don Cheadle

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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.

~Don Cheadle

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

~Don Cheadle

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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.

~Don Cheadle

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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.

~Don Cheadle

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I want to be a part of great things.

~Don Cheadle

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 29th, 1964

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