Andy Serkis Quotes

Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

As an actor, you always have to love who you are playing.

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front of you.

Even though the 'Shooter' character on TV is so close to the real-life me, I'm still playing with ways to creatively portray that character.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.