Anthony Anderson Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

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

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#10. 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.

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

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

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#13. 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.

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

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

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#16. 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.

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#17. Comedy is second nature for me.

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#18. 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.

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#19. Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

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

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

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

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

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#24. My choices were never wrong.

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

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#26. 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'.

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#27. 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.

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#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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#30. I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.

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#31. 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.

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