Andy Serkis Quotes

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wonderful, Solitude, Mountains

• And ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’ was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Rock, Working

• An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don’t have time to hand-draw or animate with a

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  Tags in Time, Moment, Actor

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Feeling, Thoughts

• 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

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Acting, Knows

• A lot of actors on film sets… very often they’re not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I’ve always had that awareness and that’s something that I’ve wanted to bring in to go beyond acting… As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Through, Around

• Gollum is Gollum – though in ‘Lord of the Rings’ he’s 600 years old and in ‘The Hobbit’ he’s 540, so he looks a little bit more

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Old, Lord, Handsome

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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