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I've always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton's performance in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' so somewhere along the line, I've always wanted to play that character.

~Andy Serkis

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When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I had to go back and repeat the process on my own to do the physical capture on a motion capture stage.

~Andy Serkis

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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

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Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.

~Andy Serkis

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If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.

~Andy Serkis

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If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.

~Andy Serkis

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Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.

~Andy Serkis

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On 'The Avengers,' I've been working closely with Mark Ruffalo.

~Andy Serkis

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Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.

~Andy Serkis

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I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.

~Andy Serkis

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: April 20th, 1964

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