Anthony Anderson famous quotes

06-24-2025

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

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

#Innocence #Guilty #Innocent
I provide a little comic relief.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

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

#Actors #Able #Firsts
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

#Rapper #Sam Jackson
I've worked with some actors who can't act.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

#Comedian #Actors #Occasions
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

#Opening Up #Pages #Matter
Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

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

#Comedian
Comedy is second nature for me.
-- Anthony Anderson

#Comedy
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

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

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

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

#Wife #My Wife #Trusted
My choices were never wrong.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

#Art #School #Talent
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

#Fighting #Sky #Firefighter
Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.
-- Anthony Anderson

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

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

#Hockey #Thinking #Rapper
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

#Believe #Thinking #Icons
It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.
-- Anthony Anderson

#History #Soldier #Historical
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

#Jobs #Opportunity #Rapper
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.
-- Anthony Anderson

#Departed #Records #Goes On

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