57 Quotes by Terence Stamp

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

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

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

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.

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'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 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.