Quotes by Anthony Mackie

About Anthony Mackie:

Anthony D. Mackie is an American actor. He has been featured in feature films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier's Play, and Carl Hancock Rux's Talk, for which he won an Obie Award in 2002.
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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!

Anthony Mackie

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.

Anthony Mackie

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

Anthony Mackie

The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.

Anthony Mackie

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.

Anthony Mackie

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

Anthony Mackie

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.

Anthony Mackie

I enjoy where I am and I don't have a problem with being Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Don Cheadle, or Jeffrey Wright. They're not the lead of every movie they're in, but every time you see them they're really good.

Anthony Mackie

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.

Anthony Mackie

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.

Anthony Mackie

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

Anthony Mackie

I would love to be a superhero.

Anthony Mackie

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.

Anthony Mackie

The stage is my first love.

Anthony Mackie

I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.

Anthony Mackie

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

Anthony Mackie

Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.

Anthony Mackie

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.

Anthony Mackie

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.

Anthony Mackie

With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.

Anthony Mackie

Author Bio

  • NameAnthony Mackie
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornSeptember 23, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor