Quotes by Andy Serkis

About Andy Serkis:

Andrew Clement is an English film actor, director and author. He is best known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in Rise (2011) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (2011). Upcoming motion capture roles include playing Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), and Baloo in Jungle Book: Origins (2017).
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My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

Andy Serkis

Middle-earth is a universe I know very well.

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Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.

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On 'The Avengers,' I've been working closely with Mark Ruffalo.

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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 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.

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You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

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When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

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The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.

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When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

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After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character... You are telling your body that you are these t...

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As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.

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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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I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who... think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors... understand that that's part of the craft.

Andy Serkis

Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.

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I've been told that some guy wrote something like, 'Andy Serkis does everything, animators do nothing.' Of course I never in a million years said that, wouldn't ever say that. It's not within my understanding of filmmaking to ever say anything like t...

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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 always wanted to play that character.

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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 of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.

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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 devastating - what a live-action performance does.

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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 ano...

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In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that charac...

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Author Bio

  • NameAndy Serkis
  • DescriptionBritish actor, director and author
  • BornApril 20, 1964
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Film Director; Writer; Actor; Voice Actor