Anthony Mackie

“Art-school girls are very nice.”

“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.”

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

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

“There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.”

“You never see girls running after engineers.”

“I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.”

“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.”

“If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.”

“The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.”

“Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!”

“Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.”

“There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.”

“The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.”

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

“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.”