Terence Stamp Quotes

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Terence Stamp

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 22, 1939

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

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A lot of people only see me as villains.

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All actors are incredibly insecure.

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

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In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

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

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

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What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

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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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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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