Andy Serkis Quotes
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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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.
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Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
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The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness
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I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.
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The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
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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.
