Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle
Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle Jr. is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. He had an early role in Hamburger Hill, before building his career in the 1990s with performances in Devil in a Blue Dress, Rosewoodand Boogie Nights. He started a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the films Out of Sight, Trafficand Ocean's Eleven. Other films include The Rat Pack, Things Behind the Sun, Swordfish, Crash, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Reign Over Me, Talk to Me,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 November 1964
CityKansas City, MO
CountryUnited States of America
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.
There are things that are happening way earlier than [the Oscars] when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie.I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.
Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?
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.
People saw the film and said, 'Wow that was terrible. I wish I had known.' Now you know.
Don't talk to me unless you speak American. It's all the things you don't say that's below the surface and how it can bubble up.
The problems are very nuanced and complex. We are in dire need of leadership from our government if we are going to see any change.
The problems are very nuanced and complex... we are in dire need of leadership from our government if we are going to see any change,
The problems are very nuanced and complex, ... We are in dire need of leadership from our government if we are going to see any change.
The problems are very nuanced and complex and are things that we are in dire need of leadership from our government if we are going to see any change.
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.
We cannot stand here in a free society, proclaiming that we care about human life, and do nothing in the face of this, in my opinion,
We knew if we could get Don, he'd attract a cast because he's the kind of actor all the directors want to work with. We asked him to produce the film as well, because we're not dumb. ... He's the reason we have this cast, he and the fabulous casting directors.
What we are seeing are tsunamis of violence, ... and we will continue to see these unless people step up, unless people step forward and demand from their leadership, demand from the international community that this not stand.