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I would love to be a superhero.

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Anthony Mackie
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: September 23
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anthony Dwane Mackie
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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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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.
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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.
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Playing somebody who's real, you can bring all kind of nuances and things to him that you get from source material and things like that, but the more popular or known the person is, the more impossible it is. To get it right, that is the goal.
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You never see girls running after engineers.
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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.
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If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.
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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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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.
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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.
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I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
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I'm happy to be an Avenger!
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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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As actors, the great thing about our career is we get to change from role to role. I don't want to be known as put him in the movie because he has nice abs guy.
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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.
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