Terence Stamp Quotes

• 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.

  Terence Stamp

  Boys, Invisible, Ability

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

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  Trying, Ease

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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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  Cutting, Firsts, Dimensions

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• All actors are incredibly insecure.

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  Insecure, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Real, Careers, Firsts

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• In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

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  Youth, Illustrators

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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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  Stars, Fading, Kind

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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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  Experience, Going Out, Pasta

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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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  Politician, Wanted, Decorators

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• A lot of people only see me as villains.

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  People, Villain

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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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  Mother, War, Saws

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• What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

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  Careers, Long, Wanted

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 20, 2005.

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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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  Cities, San Francisco, Magic

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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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  Cutting, Finals, Disappointed

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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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  Bored, Newspapers, Stamps

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Razors, Film, My Favorite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Movie, Beauty, Thinking

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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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  Luxury, America, Stuff

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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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  Girl, Cameras, Actors

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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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  Confidence, Rough Edges, Kind

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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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  Emotional, Directors, Levels

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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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  Real, Heaven, Film

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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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  Movie, Fun

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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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  Matter, Premieres

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• I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.

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  Thinking, Energy, Overdrive

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