Terence Stamp Quotes
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A lot of newspapers say Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.
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When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
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The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.
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I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening.
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I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.
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A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.
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It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.
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With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!
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I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.
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Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.
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I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.
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Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.
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Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.
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My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.
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I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.
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I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.
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As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.
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My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!
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From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.
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In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
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At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.
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I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.
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It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.
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A lot of people only see me as villains.
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He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.
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Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.
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I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
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All actors are incredibly insecure.
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What I wanted more than anything was a long career.
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I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.
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