Anthony Mackie Quotes

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• Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
• Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.
• 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…
• The stage is my first love.
• There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
• 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…
• With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.
• You never see girls running after engineers.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Art-school girls are very nice.
• At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.
• Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

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