Terence Stamp Quotes

#1. A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.

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#2. In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

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#3. I'd been a Superman fan since the time I was a little kid. We had great respect for the Donner movie, and Superman II with Terence Stamp as Zod but I felt it was time to bring the character into the 21st century.

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#4. 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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#5. I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.

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#6. 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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#7. I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

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#8. My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

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#9. A lot of people only see me as villains.

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#10. In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

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#11. It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

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#12. All actors are incredibly insecure.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. 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.

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#27. I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

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#28. A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.

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#32. I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening.

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#33. 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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