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I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.
— Andy Serkis
Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.
— Andy Serkis
Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.
— Andy Serkis
I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.
— Andy Serkis
Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.
— Andy Serkis
As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role.
— Andy Serkis
Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.
— Andy Serkis
I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'
— Andy Serkis
Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.
— Andy Serkis
Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.
— 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
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
Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.
— Andy Serkis
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 bit more handsome.
— Andy Serkis
Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me.
— Andy Serkis
Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.
— Andy Serkis
I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
— Andy Serkis
I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.
— 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 flourish.
— Andy Serkis
I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
— Andy Serkis
I have a road bike and a mountain bike, and I tend to use them both a lot. They help you keep your balance and your stamina.
— Andy Serkis
Second films are, you know, like 'difficult second albums', so it's a tricky position to be in but I think he's made a highly accomplished film.
— Andy Serkis
It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.
— Andy Serkis
Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.
— Andy Serkis
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 not going away.
— Andy Serkis
Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.
— Andy Serkis
Just being an ape is a workout.
— Andy Serkis
There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.
— Andy Serkis
Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.
— Andy Serkis
I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives.
— Andy Serkis
The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.
— 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
35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think.
— Andy Serkis
My livelihood depends on the art of animators.
— Andy Serkis
I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
— 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 leap.
— Andy Serkis
I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.
— Andy Serkis
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
— Andy Serkis
I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised.
— Andy Serkis
Looking back, when I was Gollum, I suppose I did break the mold to a certain extent. I'm proud, and very thrilled, to be a part of that.
— Andy Serkis
An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
— Andy Serkis
Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.
— Andy Serkis
You can't just come up with an idea for a game and stick the drama on top. It all has to be one driving thrust.
— Andy Serkis
'Macbeth' is an amazing story.
— Andy Serkis
Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.
— Andy Serkis
I guess I just tend to feel at home wherever I go.
— Andy Serkis
I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.
— Andy Serkis
I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.
— Andy Serkis
Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.
— Andy Serkis
The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.
— 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 if I didn't have that.
— Andy Serkis
I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.
— Andy Serkis
Thank God for Skype!
— Andy Serkis
As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.
— Andy Serkis
Middle-earth is a universe I know very well.
— Andy Serkis
As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.
— Andy Serkis
The fact of the matter is I have done so many parts.
— Andy Serkis
My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.
— Andy Serkis
I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.
— Andy Serkis
You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
— Andy Serkis
I don't want to play a voice.
— 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 love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.
— Andy Serkis
'How To Train your Dragon 2' is an amazing film. I think it's an extraordinary film. The animation in it is fantastic.
— Andy Serkis
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 good and bad sides.
— Andy Serkis
I've always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be.
— Andy Serkis
When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.
— Andy Serkis