Andy Serkis Quotes
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I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.
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I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.
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I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.
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My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.
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Middle-earth is a universe I know very well.
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Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup.
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I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.
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The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.
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Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.
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A lot of people have asked me to do answer phone messages for them.
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Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.
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Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.
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'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.
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Climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life, and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster.
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If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit,' after all.
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If you're in a motion-capture studio, you have spherical, reflective markers, which are picked up by cameras that emit infrared - it reflects it, and then the cameras pick up the data.
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Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.
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If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.
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I'm a Mac user. I think it depends on how you were brought up, and I was introduced to Apple quite early. They're certainly the best for visual stuff and film-directing.
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Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.
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More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
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I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.
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We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.
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Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.