Quotes by Don Cheadle

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.

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

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles. Thirty years later, there's still the same sort of excitement I get from it. It's still fun to inhabit different characters and play different things, so it's all in that panoply of acting.

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.

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.

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.