Andy Serkis Quotes
Did you happen to catch the film I did between 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Kong?' It was a nice little Jennifer Garner comedy, '13 Going on 30,' and I play her boss. In my big scene, I get to moonwalk - pretty well, I thought - to Michael Jackson.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Music is about the performance.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.
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You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
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Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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Being a global citizen makes you a more interesting person.
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We, as a league, must do a better job of protecting the integrity of the game and the safety of our players.
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Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!
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I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.
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Did you happen to catch the film I did between 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Kong?' It was a nice little Jennifer Garner comedy, '13 Going on 30,' and I play her boss. In my big scene, I get to moonwalk - pretty well, I thought - to Michael Jackson.
