Anthony Mackie famous quotes

You never see girls running after engineers.
-- Anthony Mackie

#Girl #Running

What was funny, going to the gym, you see all these guys who are just massive. There's no way a person can naturally get that way. In the gym, you meet these guys and you talk to them, and everybody's really willing and open to explain to you what cycle they're on and to help you get on it.
-- Anthony Mackie

#Guy #Way #Helping

I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.
-- Anthony Mackie

#Hipster #Guy #Feel Good

I work out every day just to keep in shape. I feel like I never want to get stuck in a position where when you need somebody with great arms, you call Anthony Mackie. That hasn't been the calling card for my career, and nor do I want it to be.
-- Anthony Mackie

#Careers #Work Out #Needs

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.
-- Anthony Mackie

#Nice #Careers #Guy

As an actor, the only thing we can do is play the truth at that moment. Because at any point in time if you play the future, or you play that you know something that the audience does not know, it kills the illusion of reality.
-- Anthony Mackie

#Reality #Play #Doe

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

#Games #Dollars

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

#Opportunity #Long #Preparation

The stage is my first love.
-- Anthony Mackie

#First Love #Firsts #Stage

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

#Black #Actors #Young

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

#Rapper #New Orleans

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

#Order #Law #Done

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

#Hard Work #School #Opportunity

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

#Thinking #People #Style

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

#Fun #Opportunity #Interesting

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

#Blow #Two #Roles

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

#Fun #Cities #San Francisco

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

#Problem #Enjoy #Stanley

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

#Father #Ideas #Want

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

#Dog #Kids #New Orleans

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

#Brother #New York #Actors

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

#Twilight #Good Movie #Want

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

#Independent #Crafts #Scripts

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

#Destiny #People #Choices

Art-school girls are very nice.
-- Anthony Mackie

#Girl #Art #Nice

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

#Fun #Home #School

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

#Mad #Hammers #Bookshelves

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

#Jobs #School #People

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

#Taken #People #Caught

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

#Luxury #Forever

I would love to be a superhero.
-- Anthony Mackie

#Superhero

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

#People #Firm #Believer

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

#Noir #Josh

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

#United States #Would Be #Neighborhood

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

#Work Out #Acting #Construction

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

#Essence #Community #Black

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

#People #Hollywood #Earth