A biography for Terence Stamphasn’t been written yet.
“It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.”
“I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.”
“All actors are incredibly insecure.”
“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.”
“I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“What I wanted more than anything was a long career.”
“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!”
“A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.”
“I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.”
“He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.”
“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.”
“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!”
“A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.”
“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.”