Andy Serkis Quotes

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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,…
• But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time…
• My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script…
• I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of…
• A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've…
• Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing,…
• Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue…
• Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.
• 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…
• I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
• When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know,…
• As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.
• It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
• I guess I just tend to feel at home wherever I go.
• I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.
• The fact of the matter is I have done so many parts.
• 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…
• I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.
• Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.
• The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.

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