Serkis Actor Quotes

#1. Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

Andy Serkis

#2. Westinghouse was responsible for tremendous feats of manufacturing - extremely well-built devices made by a factory of hundreds, each one supplying a part. A chain of construction. Edison, on the other hand, had built himself a factory that did not produce machines, but rather ideas.

Graham Moore

#3. 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

#4. It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

Gerry Geek

#5. Creativity is a calling, a hearkening to one's spirit.

Linda A. Tancs

#6. It is the character of the road you travel gives you wisdom not the length of the road!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

Andy Serkis

#8. Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

Catharine Beecher

#9. 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.

Andy Serkis

#10. To write well is to have felt a tingle of joy in your being; to have left a little of your blood on the page' B.J.Kibble, author of DRY RAIN, LEGION, CHASING THE WIND,and CRIES FROM THE GRAVE.

B.J. Kibble

#11. In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

George D. Prentice

#12. Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

Sean Penn

#13. The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action role and we're having a scene together, there's no difference in our acting processes.

Andy Serkis

#14. Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

Andy Serkis

#15. You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.

Andy Serkis

#16. I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

Andy Serkis

#17. In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand.

Andy Serkis

#18. 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

#19. The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

Gary Miller

#20. Such a mindless approach leads not to simple code, but to simplistic code. Simplistic code is incorrect code. Because it is ill-thought through,

Anonymous

#21. Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm passionate about it, and I love it. It's the most liberating tool an actor has, because you are not limited by your own physicality, look, or color of your eyes.

Andy Serkis

#22. That's because your new tracker couldn't find his own dick in the dark.

Rachel Vincent

#23. We are not going to have a zombie-versus-vampire war through the streets of Dublin, Nathaniel.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#24. They [traditional studios] probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the tradition and craft of acting. And it's the latest step. You know, we, we tend to find forms of delivering stories that fit our times.

Andy Serkis

#25. I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor.

Andy Serkis