Andy Serkis Quotes

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.

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• When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Harmony

• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• Spare no expense to save money on this one.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Money
  • Save
  • Expense

• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Like
  • Reach

• I must never write when I do not want to write.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Want
  • Never
  • Write

• I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Politics
  • Tired
  • Complaining

• Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Job
  • Dad

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
  • New

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
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• Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Taken
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  • Been

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Small

• In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • World
  • Picture
  • Club

• I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Unique

• I definitely respect the men and women who came before me and how much those people gave to me musically.

  

  Frankie Ballard
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • True
  • Crazy

• Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

  

  Archie Shepp
  • Music
  • Important

• You sang far better than you knew; the songsThat for your listeners’ hungry hearts sufficedStill live,-but more than this to you belongs:You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • Live

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
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  • School

• It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.

  

  Andy Serkis
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