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Anthony Mackie
American
Actor
Born:
Sep 23
,
1978
Good
Love
People
School
Work
You
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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.
Anthony Mackie
You
Opportunity
Decision
Made
Projects
Some
Juilliard
Celebrity
Get
Going
Want
Wanted
Interesting
Cool
Fun
Actor
Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
Anthony Mackie
Time
Every
Every Time
Bookshelf
Mad
Something
Make
Hammer
Grab
Get
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.
Anthony Mackie
You
Everybody
Saw
Spike
Spike Lee
Only
Lead
Had
Nobody
Knows
Got
Lee
Up
Role
Person
Blow
Movie
Happen
Movies
Gonna
Two
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
You
Business
Father
Sense
Telling
Someone
Entrepreneurship
Never
Idea
Up
Owned
Want
Grew
Cannot
Raised
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.
Anthony Mackie
Work
Hard Work
Good
People
School
Opportunity
Made
College
Parents
Through
Most
Grades
Afforded
Hard
Good Grades
I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.
Anthony Mackie
People
Picture
Having
Taken
Understand
How
Caught
Up
Get
Just
I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
Anthony Mackie
More
Josh
Noir
Than
I would love to be a superhero.
Anthony Mackie
Love
Would
Superhero
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
Love
People
School
Listening
Job
Soon
Because
Always
Got
How
Graduated
Wanted
Lives
Awful
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
Law
Else
Recognized
More
More Than Anything
Never
Fails
Still
Than
Get
Done
Order
Anything
Anything Else
Movies
Episode
If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.
Anthony Mackie
Work
Future
Construction
Out
Work Out
Acting
The stage is my first love.
Anthony Mackie
Love
First
Stage
First Love
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.
Anthony Mackie
Me
You
Modicum
Luxuries
Bad
About
Like
Forever
Afforded
Movie
Movies
Thing
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.
Anthony Mackie
Work
Free
Francisco
Favorite
Spike
Spike Lee
Would
City
Lee
Role
Shoot
Did
Just
So Much Fun
Movie
San
San Francisco
Far
Much
Fun
Sucker
If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.
Anthony Mackie
You
Protection
Black
Community
Group
More
True
Look
Were
Essence
If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.
Anthony Mackie
Everyone
States
Neighborhood
Would
Would-Be
Magical
Invested
Place
Lived
United
United States
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
You
People
Think
Medium
Say
Case
Only
Study
Because
Styles
Were
Lines
Up
Just
Much
Stand
Acting
Stand Up
Techniques
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
Success
Work
You
Opportunity
Long
Preparation
Way
Plus
Feel
Come
Like
Continue
Begets
Going
Success Is
Your
Prepared
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
Time
Good
You
Problem
Enjoy
Every
Every Time
See
Wright
Lead
Steve
Am
Being
Where
Movie
Them
Really
Stanley
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