Andy Serkis Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Andy Serkis quote about:
- Acting,
- Age,
- Art,
- Books,
- Challenges,
- Character,
- Community,
- Culture,
- Dad,
- Environment,
- Eyes,
- Film,
- Mountain,
- Rings,
- Technology,
- Transformation,
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“Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.”
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“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 and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.”
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“The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.”
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“Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.”
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“More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.”
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“But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.”
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“I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.”
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“For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.”
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“As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.”
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“I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.”
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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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“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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“I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.”
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“My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.”
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“When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.”
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“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.”
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“I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.”
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“The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.”
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“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.”
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“I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.”
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“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, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.”
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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, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.”
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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 don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.”
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“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 time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.”
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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 studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.”
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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. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical.”
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“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 them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.”
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“Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.”
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“Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.”
-- Andy Serkis