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

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

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..

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

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 Fellin….

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

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

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator..

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

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 impo….

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene..

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..

All actors are incredibly insecure..

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge..

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, ….

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

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..

Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven..

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy..

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..

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 t….