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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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.

Anthony Mackie

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.

Anthony Mackie

You never see girls running after engineers.

Anthony Mackie

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

Anthony Mackie

There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.

Anthony Mackie

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

Anthony Mackie

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

Anthony Mackie

Art-school girls are very nice.

Anthony Mackie

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

Anthony Mackie

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

Anthony Mackie

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.

Anthony Mackie

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.

Anthony Mackie

Author Bio

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