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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. "

Terence Stamp

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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! "

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

Terence Stamp

Career

Than

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut. "

" 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! "

" In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator. "

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