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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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.
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When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.
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The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.
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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.
