Anthony Anderson quotes:

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'.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I provide a little comic relief.

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

Weight was never an issue with me.

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

I always thought I was the finest thing around.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

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.

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

My choices were never wrong.

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

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

I will admit the best sex I've ever had has been with my wife.

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

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.

I learned never to say, 'That's too tight.' If a woman puts it on and feels good about herself, then it's for her.

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

Comedy is second nature for me.

Sometimes, as a team, you win together. Sometimes as a team you lose together.

There are going to be ups and downs in any relationship. It's a team.

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

If we believe the good we read about ourselves, we have to believe the bad we read about ourselves.

We were a spiritual family. My mother always told me, 'People hated Jesus Christ, so why should you worry about them?' Once she put it in that perspective, I was like, 'You're right, Ma.'

It doesn't matter what people feel about you because everyone is going to have an opinion.

I've always been comfortable in the skin that I'm in.

My parents always worked through their arguments and never went to bed angry. They may not have agreed with one another, but they didn't let that disagreement stop them from laying with one another in peace at night.