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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. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#always #around #art #attention #awareness

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

#animate #computer #director #finds #moment

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#am #artist #considered #happy #hispanic

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#fantastic #film #games #got #heart

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

#handsome #little #little bit #looks #lord

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#actor #between #capture #character #characters

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#behind #bit #disappointed #doing #early

I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#as far as #back #chance #course #directing

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

#certainly #craft #emerging #generation #going

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#artist #communication #different #different way #explore