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, Best, Age, Culture, People, You

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 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

Mountain, Bike, Balance, Road, Help, You

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

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

Ring, Addiction, 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

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, Think, New, Feel, Back, Stop

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude. Andy Serkis

Relationship, Mountains, Solitude, Think

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, Live, Character, Day, End, Me

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, Down, You

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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, Book, Think, You, Three, Become

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, Feel, Animation, Working, Beat

Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking. Andy Serkis

Great, Page, Filmmaking, Storytelling

If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does. Andy Serkis

Character, Performance, You, Will, Give

You're watching your kids playing football, and you're not present. It's like the worst... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with. Andy Serkis

Football, Struggle, Moment, Myself, Men

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation. Andy Serkis

Moving, Acting, Healthy, Why, Chameleon

I enjoy high-speed about-turns in thought. Andy Serkis

Thought, Enjoy, High-Speed

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, My Life, Done, Body, Painful

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that. Andy Serkis

God, Pressure, Acting, Top, Like, Out

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

Hobby, Always, Mine, Been, Huge

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away. Andy Serkis

Performance, Young, You, Capture, Say

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 spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I drew on a lot of Tolkein's descriptions of how he moves, but also the conceptual artist sketches. Andy Serkis

Time, Artist, Say, My Own, Working, Own

Thank God for Skype! Andy Serkis

God, Thank God, Skype, Thank

Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older. Andy Serkis

Life, Me, Rest, Grow, Picture, Look

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. Andy Serkis

Short, Doing, Directing, Lord, Started

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