Latest Anthony Mackie Quotes from Interviews

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• One thing that I've been very vocal about roles I take, and my representation has been very smart about, is that I didn't go to Juilliard to be "Thug #2" in movies. I like to be challenged. I'd say that about 40% of the roles I've done have been written for white men.

  Anthony Mackie

  Smart, Thug, Men

  Source: aalbc.com

• The advise my dad gave me: "To know is to study." Get some training under your belt, so that nobody what somebody asks you to do, you know how to handle it accordingly. I learned so much while working, because I developed a solid work ethic in school. Whereas, a lot of my friends had no work ethic; and because of that, they're sitting at home today.

  Anthony Mackie

  Dad, Home, School

  Source: aalbc.com

• People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.

  Anthony Mackie

  People, Subplots, Personal Life

  "Anthony Mackie Talks Civil War and Learning He Was an Avenger When He Saw Age of Ultron". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 7, 2016.

• Not too many people can say they love what they do and they really like the people they work with.

  Anthony Mackie

  People

  "'Captain America: Civil War': Anthony Mackie on What It Will Take For Him to Buy Grindr". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 9, 2016.

• I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

  Anthony Mackie

  Writing, Heart, Men

  "'Captain America: Civil War': Anthony Mackie on What It Will Take For Him to Buy Grindr". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 9, 2016.

• I'm happy to be an Avenger!

  Anthony Mackie

  Avengers

  "Anthony Mackie Talks Civil War and Learning He Was an Avenger When He Saw Age of Ultron". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 7, 2016.

• With being an Avenger there's not really a hierarchy. Everybody gets to make decisions, everybody's put in a position to save the day as opposed to standing there while one person flies in and saves the day and you're like, "Good job!" Avengers is really a team effort.

  Anthony Mackie

  Jobs, Team, Effort

  "Anthony Mackie Talks Civil War and Learning He Was an Avenger When He Saw Age of Ultron". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 7, 2016.

• 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.

  Anthony Mackie

  Kings, Essence, Luther

  Source: collider.com

• For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

  Anthony Mackie

  Compassion, Understanding, Loving Family

  Source: collider.com

• Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

  Anthony Mackie

  Pride, Despair, Depth

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

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  Thinking, Talking, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's because the idea of what's cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what's cool is whether or not you've been to jail, or if you have a car. If you talk to a girl who goes to art school, what's cool to her is if you do art projects on the weekend with your dad, if you can build something - out-of-the-norm stuff.

  Anthony Mackie

  Girl, Art, Dad

  "What Anthony Mackie Can Do in a Day". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2012.

• It's hard sometimes when you're in a regular high school, you just feel like the odd kid out. The great thing about going to an art school [is] it's kind of like it's all the odd kids. It's all the kids that don't fit in at their regular schools, because you're into something and excited about something that other kids really aren't into. When you go to art school, everybody's kind of on the same page.

  Anthony Mackie

  Art, School, Kids

  "What Anthony Mackie Can Do in a Day". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2012.

• People fight for their regulars. It gets dirty sometimes.

  Anthony Mackie

  Dirty, Fighting, People

  "What Anthony Mackie Can Do in a Day". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2012.

• Practice your improv more than learn your lines. 'Cause there's no way you'll be able to learn all those lines in a short time. You have to realize what you know and what you don't know - and what you don't know, just come up with three alternate lines or improv that you can put in that spot.

  Anthony Mackie

  Practice, Three, Lines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough.

  Anthony Mackie

  Country, Military, Believe

  Source: collider.com

• I love what I do. If I have the opportunity to do what I do with people I admire, it's 10 times better.

  Anthony Mackie

  Opportunity, People, Admire

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Anthony Mackie

  Character, Guy, Next

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Anthony Mackie

  Guy, Hollywood, Fingers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• Playing somebody who's real, you can bring all kind of nuances and things to him that you get from source material and things like that, but the more popular or known the person is, the more impossible it is. To get it right, that is the goal.

  Anthony Mackie

  Real, Goal, Nuance

• When I was in high school, I read the whole thing about Don King and he had this quote that said, "Set yourself on fire and the world will pay to watch you burn." I thought that was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard and I wrote it on my wall.

  Anthony Mackie

  Kings, Wall, School

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Anthony Mackie

  Believe, Men, People

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: screenrant.com

• 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

  "How Anthony Mackie Got Big For 'Pain & Gain'". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. April 27, 2013.