Anthony Mackie Quotes
I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.
If I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.
I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.
If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.
Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.
I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.
If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.
Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy.
Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!
I'm a firm believe that a man looks his best in a suit and I feel like in the late 40's people just dressed up to do everything.
Not too many people can say they love what they do and they really like the people they work with.
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.
If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.
As actors, the great thing about our career is we get to change from role to role. I don't want to be known as "put him in the movie because he has nice abs" guy.
Hollywood's a business, and until someone puts their finger on you and decides you're the guy who's going to carry that movie, it's not going to happen.
I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.
So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.
I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.
In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.
Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.
For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.
I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is.
I think you can only be outgoing when the person you're talking to is outgoing. I can be outgoing if I want to be, if you meet me halfway.
Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.
I did this movie with Spike Lee called Sucker Free City, and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.
There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.
With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.
I love what I do. If I have the opportunity to do what I do with people I admire, it's 10 times better.
There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.
