Terence Stamp quotes
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“I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening.”
-- Terence StampSource : "'It's about death as much as it is about life'". Interview with Dominic Murphy, Martyn Cox, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.
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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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“I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.”
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“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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“I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.”
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“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.”
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“Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.”
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“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!”
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“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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“It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.”
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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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“My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.”
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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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“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.”
-- Terence StampSource : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 20, 2005.
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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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“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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“The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.”
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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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“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 young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.”
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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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“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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“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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“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 my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.”
-- Terence Stamp
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