Terence Stamp Quotes

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
Terence Stamp

A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.
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Bored, Playing, Himself

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.
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Emotional, Young, Open

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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Sure, Ability, Invisible

A lot of people only see me as villains.
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All actors are incredibly insecure.
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Insecure, Incredibly

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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Real, Film, Heaven

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

Money, Movies, Fun

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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Time, Made, Before

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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Him, Working, Matter

I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.
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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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Enough, Fancy, Stretched

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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Work, Cut, Final

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.
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Reality, Book, Sure

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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Work, Girl, Talk

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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Same, Off, Arts

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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Money, Become, Wanted

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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Character, Off, Sure

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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Movies, Until, Actually

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.
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Great, America, Stuff

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.
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Power, Film, 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!
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Love, End, Star

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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Positive, Real, Career

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.
Terence Stamp

Try, Unless, Ease

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.
Terence Stamp

Long, Career, Wanted

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: July 22, 1939

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