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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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Anthony Mackie
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: September 23
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
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New Orleans
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Anthony Dwane Mackie
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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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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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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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I'm happy to be an Avenger!
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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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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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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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There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
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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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I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.
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People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.
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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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Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.
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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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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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