You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director -… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really! — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I've always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton's performance in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' so somewhere along the line, I've… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career -… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
My sons have to learn that you take the rough with the smooth and they've seen a lot of smooth in the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time,… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for what he… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else! — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
When you start to do research into gorillas or any kind of apes, if you're going to play them, that's one of the biggest… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I remember once, I read in a horoscope, because I'm an Aries, I read this terrible thing, which really affected me, which said, "You… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
It's really up to the acting community to be willing to be educated about what performance capture is in order to fully appreciate it… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
![“The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.” quote by Andy Serkis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/950/andy-serkis-1548_acting_the-process-of-acting-is-no-different-pl_1407029.jpg)
![“I remember once, I read in a horoscope, because I'm an Aries, I read this terrible thing, which really affected me, which said, "You will never be original. You will always be an interpreter." (Laughs) I thought, "Oh my God." You know, I had to live with that on my back for [all my life].” quote by Andy Serkis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/745/andy-serkis-1548_affected_i-remember-once-i-read-in-a-horoscope-be_196174.jpg)
![“Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] on a real chimpanzee and I worked with Terry [Notary] on a lot of chimpanzee movement.” quote by Andy Serkis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f09/andy-serkis-1548_apes_rather-than-something-like-king-kong-whe_234956.jpg)