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Terence Stamp
British
Actor
About the author
What I wanted more than anything was a long career.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Career
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.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Money
In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Being
#Youth
In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Character
#People
#Trouble
#Logic
#Blind
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.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Fantasy
#Movies
It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Luxury
#America
#England
#Performance
My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Film
#Power
#Favorite
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!
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Love
#End
Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Fun
#Money
#Movies
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.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Confidence
#Certainty
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!
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Work
#Fear
#Experience
I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Years
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.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Career
#Influence
#First
#Positive
A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Newspapers
I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Reality
I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Work
I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Fancy
I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Energy
He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
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.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Action
#Time
#First
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.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Ability
Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Film
#Heaven
All actors are incredibly insecure.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Actors
A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Open
A lot of people only see me as villains.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#People
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.
Terence Stamp,
British
Actor
#Talk
#Work
#Actor