Anthony Mackie Quotes

I didn't always know that I want to be an actor, but I always knew I wanted to be famous in anything that I do.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.

I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.

The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.

I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.