Anthony Mackie Quotes

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• You never see girls running after engineers.

  Anthony Mackie

  Girl, Running, Engineers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Anthony Mackie: 'There are a lot of limitations placed on young black actors'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• 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

  "Bartender Wisdom: Anthony Mackie Edition" by Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2012.

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• 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

  "Actor Anthony Mackie". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 3, 2011.

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• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Anthony Mackie

  People, Firm, Believer

  "Anthony Mackie Interview THE HURT LOCKER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 23, 2009.

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• 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

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

  Anthony Mackie

  Taken, People, Caught

  "Anthony Mackie: 'There are a lot of limitations placed on young black actors'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• 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

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

  Anthony Mackie

  Mad, Hammers, Bookshelves

  "Anthony Mackie: 'There are a lot of limitations placed on young black actors'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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

  Anthony Mackie

  Black, Actors, Young

  "Anthony Mackie: 'There are a lot of limitations placed on young black actors'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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

  Anthony Mackie

  United States, Would Be, Neighborhood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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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

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• 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

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• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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