Don Cheadle Quotes

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

It's my dream career to do as many different things as possible and for as long as possible, to stretch myself in as many different directions as I can.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.

I would like, certainly, to do different things.

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

It's good for me to be involved in different things.

It's always more interesting to do new things.

I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane.

I just wanted to get out there and do different roles and try new things.

I love to experiment and take every opportunity as a challenge.

I worked very hard not to have average days. I never do the same thing twice.

I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.