Don Cheadle Quotes

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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• When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • You
  • Hell
  • Half

• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • You
  • Know
  • Hurt

• I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • You
  • Play
  • Write

• After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Home
  • Me
  • Run

• In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Book
  • Sea
  • Name

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Live
  • Age
  • Best

• I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Charity

• I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • See
  • Hiding

• The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• This entire cast, N.W.A, was an all-star group, and I really feel like people are going to look at 'Straight Outta Compton' years from now like this was an all-star cast.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • People
  • Star
  • Look

• For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Never
  • inspirational
  • Defeat

• I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Thought
  • Shoes

• I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Heart
  • Moments
  • Broken

• 'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Up
  • Think
  • Fight

• If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Great
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Home
  • Just
  • Go

• A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below... My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, "The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."

  

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  • Words
  • Friend
  • Office

• If I don't book a job, I like to see it not as a rejection but as a redirection to something different.

  

  Bella Hadid
  • Different
  • Job
  • Book

• I just hate that Lucas... and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there's a special edition for a movie that doesn't deserve a special edition.

  

  Matt Stone
  • Movie
  • Hate

• I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Different
  • School
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Friend