Andy Serkis Quotes

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

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

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

Every character I play is me.

It's not that easy, but the moment the camera is switched on, I have to mould myself to breathe life into the characters I portray.