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

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, Storytelling, Other

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

You Can Do It, Everyone, Get

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

Treat, Very, Animators

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, Back, Part

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

Makeup, Behind, Quick

'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

Play, Riddles, Meant

Thank God for Skype! Andy Serkis

Thank God, Skype, Thank

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

Think, Which, Films

In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively. Andy Serkis

Work, About, Animators

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation. Andy Serkis

Love, Transform, I Love

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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

Play, Been, Very

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

Think, Play, Human Being

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

Craving, Ring, Based

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character. Andy Serkis

Good Story, Good Character

My livelihood depends on the art of animators. Andy Serkis

Art, Depends, Livelihood

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

Strong, Underdog, Always

I'm a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn. Andy Serkis

Bed, Sleeper, Very

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

Video, Studio, Live Theater

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over. Andy Serkis

Through, Occasion, Painted

Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income. Andy Serkis

Income, Gorilla, Third

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

Been, Always, Mine

After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character... You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences. Andy Serkis

Wear, Telling, Very

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever. Andy Serkis

Alone, Action, Live Action

Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation. Andy Serkis

Character, Role, Amount

When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always singular experiences, really. Andy Serkis

Voice, Straightforward

My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included. Andy Serkis

Feet, Doing, Very

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