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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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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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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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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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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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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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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Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.
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You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.
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I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.
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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.
