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Terence Stamp
July 22, 1939 -
Nationality: British
Category: Actor
Subcategory: British Actor

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

   

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

   

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!

   

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

   

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.

   

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

   

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.

   

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.

   

All actors are incredibly insecure.

   

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

   

He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.

   

A lot of people only see me as villains.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

   

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