Anthony Mackie Quotes

I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.

There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn't want that career as much as I'd like a career like Tom Hanks - he kind of represents the everyman.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray.

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.

I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'

I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors.

I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.

I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school.

I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.

Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

I've never figured out who 'Heath Ledger' is on film: 'This is what you expect when you hire me, and it will be recognizable.'

I'm a big Leonardo DiCaprio fan. And if I could have a career like his... he's amazing. And not only his career, his public persona and how he carries himself.

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

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

I'm no Zac Efron.

I am a fan of dark movies and dark complex characters, and I love to take on a character like that.

Michael Rooker is like the Merle Haggard of the acting world. Never a dull moment.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

There are parts that you can do them all your life, and no one knows you're even acting, and there are other parts which somehow - I think they say they 'pop' - people notice that you're in and you become an actor from the movies and people take you in a whole different way. Whether or not I can keep that ball rolling is another matter.

In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.