Andy Serkis Quotes

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.

What we portray on the ice is really important to us, and we love getting into character and telling a story.

I wish to continue to essay roles that will help me find my place in the audience's hearts.

When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.