Anthony Mackie Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
-
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
-
Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
-
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
-
I had no desire to crash a man's world.
-
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
-
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
-
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
-
There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
-
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
-
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
-
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
-
In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
-
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
-
To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
-
I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
-
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
-
I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.
-
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
-
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
-
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.
