Don Cheadle Quotes

I have a great support system.

Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.

I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all keep me in my place. If I didn't have them supporting all the work that I do, I wouldn't be in such a solid place.

The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.

It's important to keep yourself grounded, and my friends and family make sure of that.

I have great family and friends who constantly uplift me and make me feel good about myself.

It is hard to keep your head sometimes. I just make sure I surround myself with good people.

I'm lucky I've got such a strong group of people around me - my friends, my family who I talk to every day, and it's important that I stay in touch with them.

I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.

Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.

I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.

I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by close friends and family and they've definitely kept me grounded.

You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.

I think in this world and this industry, if you let it, it does. And I feel that the people who don't have good friends and family around them are the ones who get a little funny. But I'm very lucky. I have good friends and good family and if I ever stepped out of line, my mom would take me down!

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.

I think the No. 1 thing that helps me get through every single day is the support of my friends and my family.

You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

I also surround myself with people who make me laugh. If I'm not laughing, it upsets my day.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.