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Terence Stamp

lines on the record: 43
first: 2006-03-12
most recent: 2006-03-12
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Well, I think probably one of my own stamp collections loafs weedless, organic loafs I could have a few bits of toast on for the first week.”
2006-03-12 · Desert Island Discs · Terence Stamp · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, when I first got to grammar school, the only wonderful moment for me in that first year was the last term. And our teacher was called Miss Baron, Katie Baron. Red us wind in the willows. And in those moments I started getting these feelings of being completely at ease, being completely relaxed And I was thrown back onto that part of me which is just looking and just listening. And which hasn't seemed to have aged I was just feeling that if I just read a few chapters of Wind in the Willows it would kind of throw me back onto that which I truly am. So, Kenneth Graham's Wind of the Will”
2006-03-12 · Desert Island Discs · Terence Stamp · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Then you can explain after that. This is when I was in those moments of stress, I felt that I was kind of federal. I was too kind of... I had layers of my skin missing, and I just really was only happy with my own company and during those moments I'd play Chop And I've chosen this one because I thought that this is something on the desert island where I could contemplate the sunset.”
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“Well, I think, yeah, I could really I've thought about it a lot. I mean, I've always thought about it a lot, having kids.”
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“Well, we were we were going out for about seven years, I think Therefore, you know, I decided I'd give her the option of formalizing it.”
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“She was it was a few months before she became a full pharmacist and they have to do like actual experience so she was working in a pharmacy on Bondi Beach and she didn't serve me but she sort of noticed me and She said to me You're that Dracula fella and I thought well I was, but you wouldn't know that'cause it was a flop and it was only in theater for a month. So I said, no, I'm not. Yes, you are, I said, I'm not. Were you somebody? I said, Well, somebody I am, but track it I ain't And that was the beginning, you know, it was a kind of confrontery sort of”
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“Yah, I guess yes, it was like a miracle, really, when I met Elizabeth, and I just thought I'm never going to meet anybody that I am totally mad about, and I feel cozy with. And I was nervous because I thought If I propose to her and if she accepts it might spoil it.”
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“Yah, this is the great Jimi Hendrix, and I think this is probably... One of the few times that a Dylan song has ever been sung better than Dylan, because Jimmy does it just so beautifully. And I've chosen this one because Jimmy Hendrix sings it. But of course, you know, I'd have the whole Dylan cannon on this program if I could.”
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“Yeah, but it was about her, really. But that was the first volume. And when the film finished, the writing stopped. It just stopped. So it wasn't the beginning, a middle, an end. It was just this sort of outpouring, you know?”
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“When I got back to my room and I turn my legal legal script over and I took out my pentail pen and I started and then I couldn't stop.”
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“I called a woman I knew who was a kind of witch she's called Alisam Parker, who knew my mother. And Alison said, Listen, you should write her a letter, and you should say everything that you ever wanted to say to her. And then take the letter somewhere nice and just set fire to it. And because I was just in a bad way, I did it, actually wrote a surprisingly short this letter to my mum, but it was very obviously heartfelt. And there was a kind of an ease. It's hard to explain. There was a kind of release somehow, as though she'd read it, you know. And as I was walking back I was assailed by this ride it down, right it down, write it down. And of course I was experiencing this barrage of sort of memories of all our life together, you know, everything all at once kind of thing was giving me a headache”
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“Yeah, I think the toughest moment in my life really was when my mother died, and she'd had this stroke or whatever it was, and she was getting better. When this film came up and I thought I should clear it with her first really and I went to her and I said I've been off at this movie with Bob and Deborah. But I can stay here with you. It's like not big do it's just a job and it's not a particularly good part. And she always loved the fact that I was up there. She says, no, no, no, you must go and do it. I'll be fine. I'll be fine. You really, really, really go and do it. And I got to there and I started the movie in New York, and then I got woken up three o'clock in the morning, and they said, your mum's died. And it was a I think it was, yeah, it was like the toughest moment of my whole life, really.”
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“Number six is wonderful, wonderful singer composer who I love called Tim Hardin. Not a lot of people know him. Every one of his songs is a little gem and I really relate to this, and so does Bill Clinton. We both love this song.”
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“Rough diamond Puna, India. So it was like a miracle that it was in my hand, you know. And when I opened it, it said, you know, could you come to London to talk to Dick Donner about Superman 1 and 2 with Marlon Brando? And could you stop en route in Paris and talk to Peterbrook about Goodyf's meetings with remarkable men? And I got both parts. So I came back through quite a big door, really, albeit ten years later.”
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“No, no, no, not at all. I was actually in an ashram, and I had this long hair, and I was in robes. But when I had got to Puna, I had checked into a hotel called the Blue Diamond. and some of myself and the other English sannyasans would go to the blue diamond and have what And on one morning after I'd been there a year, as I went in the Metro, Mr Terrance, I got a cable for you, sir. I said cable. Yes, sir, cable. This is a cable And I opened it, and it was from my long suffering agent Jimmy Fraser. And the funny thing was that the telegram was addressed to Clarence Stamp.”
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“No it was just a kind of fleeting conversation I had with John Lennon, you know, it was like growing his hair and I said it's a bit camp John. He said no, all of it's Samson, you're not Samson. How long did it get?”
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“Not as I was driven, as I came out of my back door. They were giving their last concert on the roof of And I went up there to say hello to them and listen to, let it be, and then came down and got in the car and went off to Heathrow and go to Bombay. Jeff Buckley is somebody that I kind of learned about from my muso friends. He's a very sort of a Of esoteric musician readies, a wonderful guitarist, wonderful lyricist, and he died very young. He died, he drowned after making only one record. And it's a record called Grace, which I love. And this is not one of Jeff's own compositions, but it's the composition that he sings of the great Leonard Cohen.”
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“No, I really don't think that was the case my feeling was that I was wanting to be okay with myself before I embarked on a big relationship with another person. And it took a bit longer than I thought.”
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“Yah, I think so. I mean, I certainly made me kind of review my life, really, in the light of that. And it exactly coincided with my success ending. So I'd lost this young love of my life. I had no work to distract me. I was just there I was thrown back on myself.”
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“Yeah, I'm sure that it was thrilling for her. I mean, when my parents died, I did her experience enormous grief, but I could honestly say that like not a day of my life had gone by when I hadn't thought of something I could do for them. I always was crazy about D. Martin, and I love his voice. I think if I had to come back in another body, well, if it was a male body, it would have a voice like Dean.”
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“It never really occurred to me not to involve them, and in fact one of the probably the greatest joy of the fame and all the success that I had. was for my parents to experience it. I mean, I was fortunate enough to be able to give them like twenty years of kind of success, and that was a real big deal for me.”
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“I did. I did. But when I doubt this Yah, Julie, I'm when I met Julie she wasn't really known, I think when I met her she was working at the post office, you know, she hadn't had her break. But she's still talks about those Sunday lunches and my mum's steak and kidney puddings and stuff. She loved my mother, you know. Yeah, I used to take them all home for Sunday brunch”
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“We couldn't audition for the same board, and that was in the wardrobe. And when any of us were going up for a job, we got to wear that.”
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“I don't remember what But we did have this audition outfit, and it was a jacket. I think it was a reversible corduroy jacket with a shawl collar. And he could squeeze into it and I could roll the sleeves up. And so we had this audition suit, which neither of us wore.”
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“From there I won the scholarship, I went to drama school, I started getting work and the first job I got was an English tour of long and the short and the tour. And in that tour I met the great Michael Kane and I was picked up. Be in that, and at the end of the tour. I said to Mike Caine, what are you going to do now? He said, Well, I've got to find a place to live, you know, and I said, well, why don't you come and stay with us? But there were a load of us. They were like six of us to pay the 20 quid a week. There was a gang in there. It was like Just William. And Michael came and joined that gang in 64 Harley Street, but in the top floor.”
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“And whenever I had to do something that was very frightening to me, like leaving home like auditioning at drama school, one of those things that were very intimidating. Immediately prior to leaving the house I would play this pedido, so I had to have it on my disc.”
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“Um I always thought of myself as stylish, you know, I remember I had my aunt Julie make me a green corduroy waistcoat and a green bow tie which I wore with a mole brown double breasted suit you know I used to go to school dances in that you know so I was conscious of that and in a way it was the public face because inside the house was so crappy Lino you know I mean it was just we were really poor you know I don't suppose my dad ever earned more than twelve quid a week you know So it was important to my mother, I think that we look smart outside the house. This is my kind of introduction to jazz, really. I was about fifteen sixteen, and I was at a party and somebody played this at your record, this Pedido. And I was still I was just really taken aback. I didn't know anything about jazz. I didn't even know this was jazz.”
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“I think it was a bill by a politician called Rab Butler, who started this kind of grammar school thing, and I think the sixties really happened in England as a result of they were the fruits of that. So you had these, you know, Pinto and all these wonderful playwrights who were basically working class but had been educated. I mean, I can't really take credit for that because once I personally got to Plasteau Grammar, which was wonderful and I had the Blazer and I had the satchel and I had the bicycle, but during the first term, I understood it was just more of the same, which was learning by rote, which hurt my head. So I just became a dance again. I wasn't good at anything at grammar school. That was the drag, you know.”
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“Y changed my life, but it was so unlikely because I remember it seemed to me that I had only just learned how to read when this eleven plus was happening and I was getting a lot of emotional blackmail from the family because I was the first grandchild and I think that all the clans, the parrots and the stamps were obviously secretly hoping that This next generation would not be kind of galley slaves, you know, like they had been. And so there was all kinds of things, you know, oh if you pass it, we'll get you a bicycle and if we pass it you'll get a satchel and I just knew it was out of the question.”
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“Then I saw everybody. That was the escape, you know, from a very black and white East End. Record number two I always love the voice of Serra Vaughn. And them when I realized how beautiful she was, I had a real crush on her. And I've always loved co-porter. I love the fact that he wrote the music and the lyrics, which give it a wonderful alchemy.”
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“When the war started my dad went back into the navy he'd been a merchant seaman. But when he left I became her surrogate, everything. And so when I was about to And the movie was Boges with the wonderful Gary Cooper. And I was lost in that moment, you know”
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“Going home for Sunday lunch. And I think my mother must have obviously noticed that I was eating for three on those Sunday lunches, but nobody said anything.”
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“I absolutely did, and I lived a secret life for about two years. I started acting I was at the Weber Douglas Academy for like three terms, and not only did the Weber Douglas Academy pay my fees, they gave me a grant, which was eight pounds a month, which wasn't a lot, but it paid the rent, and hence the rumour Weber Douglas amongst the girls that I was anybody's for a bowl of soup at Boring. True, it wasn't exactly true, but I was pretty, I remember hunger attached to those years of studying.”
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“No, I mean if you met a girl, you know, and you got married, you moved into the bedroom upstairs kind of thing. And in order to pursue this, I had to leave home. So that was the first big riff.”
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“Yes, it really was my dad had stopped me talking about wanting to be an actor Why what did he say? Well he's he said looks on, you know, people like us don't do things like that, and I had tried to protest, and he'd said son, I don't want you to talk about it. But this thing, you know, just kept pursuing me, this wish to try this like life in Shobiz”
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“We shall talk But let's have your first record. Tell me about it. Well, my mother was musical, and I remember this debusy because She was wanting me to listen to it, and I said, Oh, it's classic, you know, it's like it's so boring. And she said, no, no, no, this is the motherload, you know. All people steal from these great classical tunes. And I was able in that moment I was able to listen to classical music differently somehow. And I've chosen this version because it was recorded in 31 and it might have been the actual record that we listened to on our wireless.”
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“Yeah, George Those kind of things, you know, those kind of movies that now I would like to have them in my canon, you know.”
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“Have regrets. No, no. I don't have those kind of regrets. My real regrets, my only regrets are movies that I passed on. Because I was fearful. They're the things I really regret.”
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“And I was distraught. I never imagined this would happen I always saw after six months or some great part would come up and nothing did.”
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“So I board around the world ticket, which was kind of epic, and I just thought to myself if I like anywhere I'll stay there.”
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“I love that, of course. Of course you did. But, you know, when the thing is that when I woke up in the morning, I was me, you know. So it wasn't a reality, as it were.”
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“I think it's hard to know when the sixties ended, I think because I had been so identified with it, I kind of ended as well, and I thought if I could be good looking and if I could be successful and if I could be famous, everything would be solved. And when it all kind of came to an end, I thought to myself there's been lots of fun, but there hasn't been any kind of real deep internal satisfaction.”
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“Yeah, no, I guess I could have, but my life has been full. I've been everywhere. I've met wonderful people. I've learned to have a life like outside of my movie career.”
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