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Actor Quotes by Andy Serkis

37 Actor quotes by Andy Serkis

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Serkis notes that performance capture will become a must‑have tool for future actors. He believes acting can change society, but actors must stay aware of the physical world around them. He distinguishes motion capture, which tracks moves, from performance capture that includes facial expression.

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I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

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

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You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.

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

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Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

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

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Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you…

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An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate…

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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…

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For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet…

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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…

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

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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 -…

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

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But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you…

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

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

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I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

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Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

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There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.

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You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.

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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…

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As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role.

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

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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…

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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…

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

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

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I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time,…

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When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is…

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Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that…

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

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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…

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I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career -…

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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…

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

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My sons have to learn that you take the rough with the smooth and they've seen a lot of smooth in the…

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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…

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

Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the…

On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this.

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically…

I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.