Andy Serkis Quotes

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

  Andy Serkis

  Magnificent, Can Do, You Can Do It

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• As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

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  Character, Play, Long

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• 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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  Character, Differences, The End Of The Day

  "Serkis: Playing Virtual Parts On The Big Screen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 4, 2011.

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• We're live in a world that has, in many ways, become desensitized and unable to empathize with other cultures and species. The dangerous part is that we objectify others and have somehow removed ourselves, mentally, from the very planet we inhabit.

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  World, Culture, Dangerous

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.

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  Voice, Agents, Casting

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

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  Believe, People, Community

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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.

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  Games, People, Age

  "Andy Serkis on Enslaved and acting in video games". Interview with Jack Arnott, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

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• No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.

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  Character, Fate, Care

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.

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  Design, Gorillas, Made

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Character, Hands

  "Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum’s Oscar Diss". Interview with Steve Silberman, www.wired.com. September 14, 2007.

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• It's really up to the acting community to be willing to be educated about what performance capture is in order to fully appreciate it as acting. It's not a type of acting, but rather the use of technology to harness an actor's performance and translate it into an ape, another animal, or an avatar of some kind.

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  Technology, Animal, Appreciate

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

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  Character, Creating, Psychology

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• [Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and then, you know, we're part of an acting tradition and, and performance capture is no different.

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  Greek, Acting, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I love, I love that notion of a slightly larger-than-life artistic truth, you know, magnifying real emotional truth (or) finding something about human condition (which), you wouldn't necessarily think you can learn from characters such as Kong or Gollum, but actually they are, you know, these huge amplifications of a human psyche and I suppose those kind of roles have always attracted me definitely.

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  Real, Character, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

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  Character, Ideas, Long

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

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  Thinking, Challenges, Just Being

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Years, Going Away, Needs

  "Hobbit Week: A Conversation With Andy Serkis, Creator of Gollum". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.

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  Passion, Mean, Climbing

  "Andy Serkis Interview – Talks THE HOBBIT, TINTIN, BURKE & HARE and SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 16, 2010.

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• Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm passionate about it, and I love it. It's the most liberating tool an actor has, because you are not limited by your own physicality, look, or color of your eyes.

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  Eye, Color, Going Away

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale.

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  Christian, Book, Jungle Book

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• 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.

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  Character, Space, Personality

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• 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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  Nice, Communication, Artist

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• I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. So Peter's known that I've been heading towards directing for a long time. But I always thought my first outing would be a couple of people and a digital camera in the back streets of London somewhere!

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  Couple, Long, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character.

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  Character, Play, Voice

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• 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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  Giving, Acting, Canvas

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