Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that..

There are no rhymes or reason, actually. Having said that, you know, cause there are people who are absolutely single-minded about their process and ….

What I'm saying is people like Hoodwink are not kind of evil villains, they're part of humanity. We can choose to disassociate ourselves from them an….

I remember once, I read in a horoscope, because I'm an Aries, I read this terrible thing, which really affected me, which said, "You will never be or….

My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing ro….

I love playing real characters... if they're not around anymore it's helpful because you won't get sued! But there's so much research involved and I ….

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas..

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'.

Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't r….

I think what traditional studios probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the tradition a….

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very ….

[Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and then, you know, we….

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

Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think ….

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….

Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating o….

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't en….

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….

In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a ….

it's a weird thing with acting and it happens to a lot of actors, not just myself - it's like you're giving off an I really need to be loved today vi….

No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they'r….