Quotations and phrases - Anthony Anderson

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

Comedy is second nature for me.
-- Anthony Anderson

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.
-- 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.
-- Anthony Anderson

I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.
-- Anthony Anderson

I can say I was associated with the success of those other films that debuted at #1, I was in it as number 3 guy or number 4 guy.
-- Anthony Anderson

I provide a little comic relief.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

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

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

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.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

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.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

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.
-- Anthony Anderson

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.
-- Anthony Anderson

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.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.
-- Anthony Anderson

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.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

My choices were never wrong.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

Out of the 16 movies that I've made, three have yet to be released, seven of those have opened at #1 at the box office.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

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

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

The kangaroo didn't get paid for the movie. He can have the poster because they fed him oats and I got a paycheck.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.
-- Anthony Anderson

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.
-- Anthony Anderson

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.
-- Anthony Anderson

We all have children, and we'd like to say that we love them all the same, but we know that there's one that we like a little bit more than the other.
-- Anthony Anderson

We had no idea... I'm thumbing through a magazine one day and I see Kangaroo Jack, and I see that's how it is. It's all about the kangaroo.
-- Anthony Anderson

Why not come see a project that I'm actually the lead in, as opposed to being the second and third lead? Imagine what I can do if it was my show.
-- Anthony Anderson

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.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

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.
-- Anthony Anderson

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