Andy Serkis

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

— Andy Serkis

Just being an ape is a workout.

— Andy Serkis

Thank God for Skype!

— Andy Serkis

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

— Andy Serkis

I don't want to play a voice.

— Andy Serkis

I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.

— Andy Serkis

J.J. Abrams is an all-time hero of mine, really lovely to be working with him.

— Andy Serkis

On 'The Avengers,' I've been working closely with Mark Ruffalo.

— Andy Serkis

I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.

— Andy Serkis

Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.

— Andy Serkis

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.

— Andy Serkis

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.

— Andy Serkis

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

— Andy Serkis

Britain has enormous amount of talent, as we've seen from the BAFTAs. It's all here, and it has to be allowed to…

— Andy Serkis

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

— Andy Serkis

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took…

— Andy Serkis

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

— Andy Serkis

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is…

— Andy Serkis

People used to say, 'Andy Serkis lent his movements to Gollum,' and now they say, 'Andy Serkis played Caesar.' That's a significant…

— Andy Serkis

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

— Andy Serkis

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

— Andy Serkis

What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret…

— Andy Serkis

Over the years, people have asked me, 'Do you think there should be a separate category for acting in the digital realm?…

— Andy Serkis

If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or…

— Andy Serkis

Recently I read that half the world or more has read 'The Lord of The Rings,' but then I found out that…

— Andy Serkis

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at…

— Andy Serkis

I suppose the biggest strain was that Hoodwink is a high-octane character and he's up there like all the time. Once he's…

— Andy Serkis

I think we can be very narrow-minded in this country; you see something that someone's done and immediately want them to do…

— Andy Serkis

Not a day goes by where I'm not reminded of Gollum by some person in the street who asks me to do…

— Andy Serkis

Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he…

— Andy Serkis

But the first time I had to stand up and sing with them was when we did the pre-record for the movie…

— Andy Serkis

Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance.…

— Andy Serkis

“Ladles and Jellyspoons, all rise for...ʻTRIUMPHʼ. And by Jupiter what a triumph it is! ... For yet again the unfeasibly huge, nay…

— Andy Serkis

it's a weird thing with acting and it happens to a lot of actors, not just myself - it's like you're giving…

— Andy Serkis

My belief about performance capture is that it's a technology which allows actors to play extraordinary characters. But from an acting perspective,…

— Andy Serkis

I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and…

— Andy Serkis

I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I…

— Andy Serkis

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

— Andy Serkis

I guess I just tend to feel at home wherever I go.

— Andy Serkis

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

— Andy Serkis