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Anthony Anderson
American
Actor
About the author
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,
American
Actor
#Work
#Living
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,
American
Actor
Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Time
#Will
#Opportunity
Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Nothing
I provide a little comic relief.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Family
#Funny
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#School
#Talent
#University
I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Actor
#Funny
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,
American
Actor
#Want
#Jobs
#Business
#Actors
You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Fight
#Sky
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,
American
Actor
#Years
#Old
#Opportunity
#Training
#Actor
They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Fun
#Play
#Freedom
There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Actor
Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Actor
Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Film
#First
#Actor
My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Wife
#Strength
My choices were never wrong.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Wrong
#Choices
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,
American
Actor
#Want
#Fun
#Hollywood
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,
American
Actor
#Work
#Day
#Respect
#Job
#Care
More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Art
#Respect
#Talent
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,
American
Actor
#Film
#Property
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,
American
Actor
It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Action
#Trying
#Funny
Comedy is second nature for me.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Comedy
#Nature
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,
American
Actor
#Will
#Martin
I've worked with some actors who can't act.
Anthony Anderson,
American
Actor
#Act
#Actors
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,
American
Actor
#Work
#Act