Quotes by Anthony Anderson

• 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.
• I've gotten my butt kicked by the best. Jet Li beat me up the best, but Steven Segal can still kick a good butt. It's a different kind of kicking, though.
• Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.
• Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.
• I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.
• I provide a little comic relief.
• I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
• I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
• I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.
• 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.
• You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.
• 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.
• 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.
• They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.
• There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.
• Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.
• Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.
• Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
• My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.
• My choices were never wrong.
• 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.
• If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job.
• More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
• If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.
• It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece.
• It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
• Comedy is second nature for me.
• Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'.
• I've worked with some actors who can't act.
• 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.