Anthony Anderson

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My choices were never wrong.

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

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

I provide a little comic relief.

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

Comedy is second nature for me.