Andy Serkis Quotes

• In ‘Tintin,’ it’s like a live-action role. You’re living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it’s a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You’re responsible for a small part.

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  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Character, Emotional

• I’ve been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Writing, Long

• I’ve always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don’t know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I’m a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in Good, Change

• I’m quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don’t like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don’t like doing what I don’t want to do.

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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in School, Quite

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Still, Treat

• I’m definitely moving more towards directing now.

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  Tags in Moving, Definitely, Directing

• I’d already started directing short films when we were doing ‘Lord of the Rings,’ then videogame projects.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Short, Lord, Started

• I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, Growing, Kid

• I understand why people went nuts for ‘The Artist.’ We use words so much, it’s nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone – or something – is thinking or feeling.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nice, Someone, Feeling

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand, Generation, Craft

• I think even back as far as ‘Lord of the Rings,’ there was always the chance that ‘The Hobbit’ would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn’t probably think at that point that he’d be directing it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Made, Chance, Far

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dad, Live, Forget

• I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, ‘God, they don’t paint behind the sets.’ It’s a bit of a shame, really – ‘Oh, what’s on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.’ I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Real, Thinking

• I play saxophone, I play tenor s*x.

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  Tags in Play, Tenor

• 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.

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  Topics in Age

  Tags in Time, Done

• I love acting and certainly won’t give it up, but it’s part of a bigger canvas for me now.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Give, Acting

• I expect at some point I’ll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I’ve not done theater in 10 years.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Done, Point, Expect

• I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Still, Bit

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Character, Live

• For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don’t necessarily look like themselves. And yet you’ve still got the heart and soul of the performance.

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  Topics in Soul, Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Still

Andy Serkis (47)

Birth:	20th April, 1964
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Author, Film Director

About

Andy Serkis was born in West London. He is an English film actor, director and author. Serkis is best known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin. Serkis has received an Empire Award, a National Board of Review Award, two Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his motion capture work. Serkis also earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of serial killer Ian Brady in the British television film Longford (2006); and he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for his portrayal of new wave and punk rock musician Ian Dury in the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

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