Quotes from Anthony Mackie

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.

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.

If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.

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.

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.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

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.

Not too many people can say they love what they do and they really like the people they work with.

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

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.

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

Art-school girls are very nice.

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.

You never see girls running after engineers.

I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.

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.