Anthony Mackie Quotes
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I'm happy to be an Avenger!
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People fight for their regulars. It gets dirty sometimes.
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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.
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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.
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If I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.
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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.
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I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Not too many people can say they love what they do and they really like the people they work with.
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Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
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At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.
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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.
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Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
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I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.
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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.
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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.
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Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.
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You never see girls running after engineers.
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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.
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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.
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Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
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People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.
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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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If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.
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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.
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