Anthony Anderson Quotes

I provide a little comic relief.

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.

You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

I learned never to say, 'That's too tight.' If a woman puts it on and feels good about herself, then it's for her.

Weight was never an issue with me.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Comedy is second nature for me.

It doesn't matter what people feel about you because everyone is going to have an opinion.

My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

My choices were never wrong.

Leo couldnt deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with The Aviator, but I will go on record to say I will do so in The Departed.

It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

I will admit the best sex I've ever had has been with my wife.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

I've worked with some actors who can't act.

My parents always worked through their arguments and never went to bed angry. They may not have agreed with one another, but they didn't let that disagreement stop them from laying with one another in peace at night.

There are going to be ups and downs in any relationship. It's a team.

If we believe the good we read about ourselves, we have to believe the bad we read about ourselves.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

I've always been comfortable in the skin that I'm in.

Sometimes, as a team, you win together. Sometimes as a team you lose together.

We were a spiritual family. My mother always told me, 'People hated Jesus Christ, so why should you worry about them?' Once she put it in that perspective, I was like, 'You're right, Ma.'

I always thought I was the finest thing around.