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Anthony Mackie [1978-0] American

Rank: 104
Actor

Anthony Dwane Mackie is an American actor. He has been featured in feature films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier's Play, and Carl Hancock Rux's Talk, for which he won an Obie Award in 2002.

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You never see girls running after engineers.		101
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.	Change	102
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.		103
I would love to be a superhero.		104
I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.		105
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.		106
At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.		107
If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.		108
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.		109
I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.		110
If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.		111
If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.		112
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!		113
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.		114
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.		115
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.		116
Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.		117
There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.		118
Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.		119
I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.		120
Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.		121
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.		122
With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.		123
The stage is my first love.		124
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.		125
Art-school girls are very nice.		126
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.		201
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.		202
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.		203
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.		204
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.		205
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.		206

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