Terence Stamp Quotes
"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
(Related: Money)
"In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: 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
(Related: People, Character, Blind, Logic, Trouble)
"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
(Related: Movies, Fantasy)
"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: Performance, America, England, Luxury)
"My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: Power, Favorite, Film)
"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
(Related: Love, End)
"Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself."
- Terence Stamp
"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
(Related: Movies, Money, Fun)
"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
(Related: Certainty, Confidence)
"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
(Related: Work, Experience, Fear)
"I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: 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
(Related: Positive, Career, First, Influence)
"A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: Newspapers)
"I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: 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
(Related: Work)
"I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: Fancy)
"I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: 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
"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
(Related: Time, Action, 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
(Related: 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
(Related: Film, Heaven)
"All actors are incredibly insecure."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: Actors)
"A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: Open)
"A lot of people only see me as villains."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: 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
(Related: Work, Actor, Talk)