Terence Stamp

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

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.

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.

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!

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!

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.

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.