Andy Serkis Quotes

Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

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• I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Great
  • Live
  • City

• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Grey

• It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Important
  • You
  • Community

• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Speed
  • Size

• I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Happy
  • Daughter
  • Yourself

• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Science
  • Action
  • Environmental

• Drama starts where logic ends.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Drama
  • Logic
  • Where

• I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Star
  • Theatre

• I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Age
  • Beautiful

• I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• Metaphysics is a science.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Metaphysics

• I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.

  

  Vanity
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Chance

• I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Imagination

• When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Start

• I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Hear
  • Street

• I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Life
  • War
  • Military

• When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Relationship
  • Eyes
  • Woman

• The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Loved

• I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.

  

  Richard Stanley
  • About
  • South
  • Distribution

• Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Money
  • Me

• I think a man cannot strive wholeheartedly with an enemy unless he have much in common with him, and as the strife goes on he gets liker.

  

  John Buchan
  • Enemy

• Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

  

  Andy Serkis