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. |