Don Cheadle Quotes

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

I find it easier to cry than I do to laugh convincingly. It's incredibly hard to pull off a laugh that feels natural take after take after take, that feels real. You can tell a fake laugh the minute you hear it, and that's something I really struggle with more than producing tears.

You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

I can't fake emotion.

Really, laughing is such a strange reaction to something. The idea of it is so bizarre, so instinctual, and kind of magical.

I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.

I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's authentic, and you can feel when it's not: you know when someone's trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It's none of that. It's just my emotions.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

When you're not happy, you don't need to fake your emotions.

I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. You're supposed to laugh, you're supposed to cry, you're not supposed to shove your feelings under the rug.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

When I'm on stage, and when I'm comfortable or uncomfortable, I have sort of a knee-jerk reaction to try to make people laugh. It's my version of a handshake to show that I want to make a connection and to show what I'm truly like. It's kind of my statement like, "This is what I'm really like. I'd like you to love me."

Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.