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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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!