Andy Serkis Quotes

As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.

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• Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Time
  • Black
  • Girl

• I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Work
  • Body
  • Yoga

• Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Book
  • Amazing

• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Challenge
  • Place

• Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Art
  • You
  • Mood

• Sex is energy.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Energy
  • Sex

• I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Walk

• I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Think
  • Human
  • Worst

• When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Editor

• Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Completion

• If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • You
  • Conservative
  • Liberal

• It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Great
  • Together
  • Day

• Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Time
  • Real
  • War

• What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Listening

• The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Power
  • True

• The worst of misfortunes is still a stroke of luck, since one feels oneself living when one experiences it/

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Luck

• Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Passion
  • Justice

• I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

  

  Marilu Henner

• To be successful, you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them.

  

  Lauren Bush
  • Up
  • Knowledge
  • Crazy

• I don’t know. But it’s my option. I don’t want to leave Chicago. I want to be successful here. I want to help this team, like I always say, be in the pennant race… I don’t want to leave, and I don’t think I will leave.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Help
  • Team
  • Successful

• I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • Mother
  • Teacher

• You know, it set you at war with yourself.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • War

• As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.

  

  Andy Serkis