Acting Quotes by Andy Serkis

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like…

— Andy Serkis

What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.

— Andy Serkis

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

— Andy Serkis

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

— 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

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

— Andy Serkis

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

— Andy Serkis

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

— Andy Serkis

The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality.…

— Andy Serkis

People are mystified by it and so they kind of think, the acting community thinks they're gonna be replaced by CG characters…

— Andy Serkis

I think what traditional studios probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the…

— Andy Serkis

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on…

— Andy Serkis

Acting is acting, as far as I'm concerned and, you know, how you manifest it is, at the end of the day,…

— Andy Serkis

People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen,…

— Andy Serkis

You don't go - oh this is a motion capture role, I'm going to employ this method of acting. We don't have…

— Andy Serkis

The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action…

— Andy Serkis

Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on…

— Andy Serkis

A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through…

— Andy Serkis

It's really up to the acting community to be willing to be educated about what performance capture is in order to fully…

— 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

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

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame,…

— 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

At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching…

— Andy Serkis

I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in…

— Andy Serkis

When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I…

— 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

(The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and…

— Andy Serkis

My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for…

— Andy Serkis

[Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and…

— Andy Serkis

Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm…

— Andy Serkis