Andy Serkis Quotes

English - Actor Born: April 20, 1964

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. Andy Serkis

Love, Age, Culture, Best, Video Games

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded. Andy Serkis

Family, Justice, People, Strong, Always

I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery. Andy Serkis

Technology, Live, Video Games, Looking

Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical. Andy Serkis

Game, Performance, Doing, You, Way, Arts

We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress. Andy Serkis

Family, Daughter, Business, Great, King

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax. Andy Serkis

Play, Saxophone, Tenor, Sax

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years. Andy Serkis

Me, Play, Remember, Dark, First, Years

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally. Andy Serkis

Addiction, Ring, Way, Craving, Him

Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone. Andy Serkis

Life, You Can Do It, Short, You, Out

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who... think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors... understand that that's part of the craft. Andy Serkis

Generation, Think, Robots, Understand

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I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation. Andy Serkis

Live, People, Sister, Direction, Summer

Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup. Andy Serkis

Music, Makeup, Slow, Camera, You, Down

I have a road bike and a mountain bike, and I tend to use them both a lot. They help you keep your balance and your stamina. Andy Serkis

Balance, Mountain, Bike, Road, Help, You

I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised. Andy Serkis

Life, Hair, Body, My Life, Done, Painful

I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives. Andy Serkis

Change, Community, Experience, People

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man. Andy Serkis

Time, Man, Treat, Bible, Cinema, Early

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?' Andy Serkis

Myself, Me, Moral, Think, Play, Growing

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine. Andy Serkis

Hobby, Always, Mine, Been, Huge

People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence. Andy Serkis

People, Think, Book, You, Three, Become

I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country. Andy Serkis

People, Feel, I Can, Kind, Country, Get

I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides. Andy Serkis

Good, Character, Think, Good And Bad

There are parts of New Zealand that I absolutely fell in love with that I will miss going back to, but I kind of think that is the part that can continue and will continue on. I don't imagine I'll stop going back to New Zealand, because I feel part of the fabric there, really. Andy Serkis

Love, Feel, Think, Kind, New, Back

I've always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton's performance in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' so somewhere along the line, I've always wanted to play that character. Andy Serkis

Character, Performance, Play, Line, Fan

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down. Andy Serkis

Children, End, You, Down, Realize, About

I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie. Andy Serkis

Cat, Dizzy, After, Had

I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly. Andy Serkis

Lion, Think, Entertainment, Audience

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