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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.
Anthony Mackie
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Anthony Mackie
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: September 23
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anthony Dwane Mackie
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It's because the idea of what's cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what's cool is whether or not you've been to jail, or if you have a car. If you talk to a girl who goes to art school, what's cool to her is if you do art projects on the weekend with your dad, if you can build something - out-of-the-norm stuff.
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For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.
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I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
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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.
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There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
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I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough.
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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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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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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 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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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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