A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.
A lot of people only see me as villains.
A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.
All actors are incredibly insecure.
Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.
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.
At the beginning, it was tough for me to actually become an actor. I was so thrilled that I was able to earn my living doing something I truly loved.
At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.
During the war, it was a great prize to get a Captain Marvel or a Superman. I read those whenever I could get them.
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.
He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.
I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.
I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.
I have to know what would've happened if I tried to get into show business. The last thing I was expecting was to have the kind of career I've had.
I just had the feeling that by the time all these kids grow up, as many of them who love Superman will love Zod. And I think that's come to pass!
I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.
I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.
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 would have liked to be James Bond.
I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.
I'm very pleased with myself. I did The Collector immediately after Billy Budd, because I thought, Well, I'll let everybody know: This is my range.
I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
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.
In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
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.
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.
It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.
My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.
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!
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.
Physically, I couldn't fold myself into a gray, invisible bank clerk. I just thought, It's the most amazing part. It's a pity that I'm wrong for it.
The Now kind of implies a Then. It's a kind of harmonic, being in harmony with a kind of energy that's between action and cut.
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.
There's the lead and then there's the romance and then there's the child star, then there's heist, and then the villain.
There's those who see me as the young, the first serial killer and then there's those who see me as this angelic creature.
To work with a guy like Wyler early in your career was just an incredible thing, because he gave me an amazing amount of confidence.
Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.
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.
What I wanted more than anything was a long career.
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.
When people ask me how I feel about the business, I say it's still the most fun thing I can think of in which to make a living.
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!
Wyler was educational... the way he made space for a young actor like myself was rare. His direction was ideal.
Terence was originally considered for the role of John Ryder in The Hitcher, but turned it down.
Terence went from playing Superman's foe (General Zod in Superman II) to playing Superman's most loving parent (the voice of Jor-El on TV's Smallville).
Terence is the older brother of the former manager of the rock band The Who - Christopher Stamp.
Stamp has been wheat and dairy intolerant since the 1960s and launched The Stamp Collection range of organic wheat and dairy free products in 1994.
Terence has been married to Elizabeth O' Rourke since December 31, 2002.
An icon of the 60s, Terence dated the likes of Julie Christie, Brigette Bardot and Jean Shrimpton.
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