Andy Serkis Quotes
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
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Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
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I have three daughters who grew up while I was working on the special editions and the prequels. They got to be big 'Star Wars' fans. And, you know, I would see them identifying with a lot of the male characters, and I just thought, 'Star Wars' could use more good strong female leads.'
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I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did.
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.
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I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!
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I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.