Andy Serkis Quotes
You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
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What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.
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I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.
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I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?
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A dress is an emotional thing to make. You've got to fall in love with it and not just with the dress - the whole process of designing it has to be a good experience.
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The thing about watching a show about the Iraq war, especially for an American audience, is that it reminds them they're responsible in some way.
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You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
