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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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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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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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One thing that I've been very vocal about roles I take, and my representation has been very smart about, is that I didn't go to Juilliard to be Thug #2 in movies. I like to be challenged. I'd say that about 40% of the roles I've done have been written for white men.
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I'm happy to be an Avenger!
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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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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 just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.
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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'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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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'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
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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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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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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 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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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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Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.
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You never see girls running after engineers.
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If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.
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What was funny, going to the gym, you see all these guys who are just massive. There's no way a person can naturally get that way. In the gym, you meet these guys and you talk to them, and everybody's really willing and open to explain to you what cycle they're on and to help you get on it.
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