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

Andy Serkis Quotes

English - Actor Born: April 20, 1964

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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

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

Life, Short, You Can Do It

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, Kind

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

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

Economy, Tourism, Income

I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else! Andy Serkis

Love, Nature, Time

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax. Andy Serkis

Play, Saxophone, Tenor

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me. Andy Serkis

Society, Me, View

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

Change, Community, Believe

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, Working

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

Day, Good, Character

I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times. Andy Serkis

Leadership, Successful, Key

My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful. Andy Serkis

Powerful, Yourself, Energy

My livelihood depends on the art of animators. Andy Serkis

Art, Livelihood, Depends

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

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character. Andy Serkis

Life, Character, Space

Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job. Andy Serkis

Job, Stable, Nowadays

I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really. Andy Serkis

Time, Age, World

My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically. Andy Serkis

Job, Understanding, Acting

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

Moving, Healthy, Acting

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, Country, Kind

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own. Andy Serkis

Happy, Father, Childhood

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me. Andy Serkis

Art, Believe, Me

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

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something. Andy Serkis

Love, Me, Interesting

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

Children, End, You

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