Anthony Mackie
Anthony Mackie
Anthony Dwane Mackie is an American actor. He has been featured in feature films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier's Play, and Carl Hancock Rux's Talk, for which he won an Obie Award in 2002...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth23 September 1978
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
avengers
I'm happy to be an Avenger!
blow two roles
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.
heart writing men
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.
people subplots personal-life
People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.
dirty fighting people
People fight for their regulars. It gets dirty sometimes.
guy way helping
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.
hipster guy feel-good
I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.
careers work-out cards
I work out every day just to keep in shape. I feel like I never want to get stuck in a position where when you need somebody with great arms, you call Anthony Mackie. That hasn't been the calling card for my career, and nor do I want it to be.
nice careers guy
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.
reality play actors
As an actor, the only thing we can do is play the truth at that moment. Because at any point in time if you play the future, or you play that you know something that the audience does not know, it kills the illusion of reality.
kings wall school
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.
guy hollywood fingers
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.
opportunity people admire
I love what I do. If I have the opportunity to do what I do with people I admire, it's 10 times better.
people
Not too many people can say they love what they do and they really like the people they work with.