Terence Stamp movie quotes

“- Shtarker: Too bad about all the dead movie stars.
- Siegfried: Yes. What will we do without their razor-sharp political advice.”
Ken Davitian - Shtarker
Terence Stamp - Siegfried

“Some lessons can't be taught, Elektra. They must be lived to be understood.”
Terence Stamp - Stick

“- President: Superman! Can you hear me? Superman! Where are you...
- General Zod: Who is this Superman?
- President: You'll find out and when you do...
- General Zod: Come to me, Superman! I defy you!”
E.G. Marshall - The President
Terence Stamp - General Zod

“- Dr. Quinn Burchenal: We're going to talk about God now, aren't we? 'Cause if we are, I'm going to need another pop.
- Chantilas: Not God. Faith.
- Dr. Quinn Burchenal: Faith? Oh, I had a girlfriend named Faith. She cheated on me, with a girl named Chastity.”
Tom Sizemore - Burchenal
Terence Stamp - Chantilas

“We just finished poisoning the Earth and everyone was dead in a hundred years. Then what was the point of anything? Art, beauty (all gone), the Greeks, the Constitution, people dying for freedom, ideas. None of it meant anything? What about religion? Do we give up on God too?”

Terence Stamp - Chantilas

“Well, you did your job, so I suppose I can't kill your wife. Although to be honest, I'd be doing the sighted world a favor.”
Terence Stamp - Siegfried

“Remember, this is a military operation. Nothing ever goes according to plan.”
Terence Stamp - Ludwig Beck

“- General Zod: Then we will go there to rule. Finally, to rule. And you will shall everything you wish.
- Ursa: Men! To kill!
- General Zod: And I will lead!”
Terence Stamp - General Zod
Sarah Douglas - Ursa

“- Elektra: You talk in riddles, old man.
- Stick: It keeps my students alert.”
Jennifer Garner - Elektra
Terence Stamp - Stick

You're dead, Carl. You say "no" to life and therefore, you're not living. You make up excuses to the people around you and to yourself. You're stuck in the same dead-end job you've had for years. You lost the love of your life because she couldn't be with someone who didn't live theirs. And on most nights you're so bored and filled with ennui,... (continue)(continue reading)
Terence Stamp - Terrence

“Now listenhere, you mullet. Why don't you just light your tampon, and blow your box apart? Because it's the only bang you're ever gonna get, sweetheart!”

Terence Stamp - Bernadette

“You gotta make a choice: when to do something, and when to let it go. When it matters, and when it doesn't. Bide your time. That's what prison teaches you, if nothing else. Bide your time, and everything becomes clear, and you can act accordingly.”
Terence Stamp - Wilson

“- Ursa: You are master of all you survey.
- General Zod: So I was yesterday. And the day before.”
Sarah Douglas - Ursa
Terence Stamp - General Zod

“What I wanted more than anything was a long career.”
Terence Stamp

“All actors are incredibly insecure.”
Terence Stamp

“In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.”
Terence Stamp

I realized science couldn't answer any of the really interesting questions. So, I turned to philosophy. I've been searching for God ever since. Who knows, I may pick up a rock and it'll say underneath, "Made by God". The universe is full of surprises.
Terence Stamp - Chantilas

“I am General Zod. Your ruler. Yes, today begins a new order. Your lands, your possessions, your very lives, will gladly be given in tribute to me, General Zod! In return for your obedience you will enjoy my generous protection. In other words you will be allowed to live.”
Terence Stamp - General Zod

“I win. I always win. Is there no one on this planet to even challenge me?”
Terence Stamp - General Zod

- Wilson: Can't be too careful nowadays, y'know? Lot of "tea leaves" about, know what I mean?
- Warehouse Foreman: Excuse me?
- Wilson: Tea leaves... thieves.
Terence Stamp - Wilson
William Lucking - Warehouse Foreman

“- Clark Kent: General, would you care to step outside?
- General Zod: Come to me, son of Jor-El, kneel before Zod!”
Christopher Reeve - Clark Kent
Terence Stamp - General Zod

“Are you retarded? It's not a rhetorical question. Are you retarded?”

Terence Stamp - Jack Taylor

“- Bernadette: We've only recently discovered that young Anthony here, bats for both teams.
- Mitzi: I do not!
- Felicia: Oh, so we're straight?
- Mitzi: No.
- Felicia: Oh, we're not. So we're a donut puncher, after all?
- Mitzi: No.
- Felicia: Then what the hell are we?
- Mitzi: I don't fuckin' know.”
Terence Stamp - Bernadette
Hugo Weaving - Mitzi
Guy Pearce - Felicia

“Only a warrior can come back from death and even then the second life is never quite like the first.”
Terence Stamp - Stick

“- Lex Luthor: Kill me? Lex Luthor? Extinguish the greatest criminal flame of our age? Eradicate the only man on Earth with...
- Ursa: Kill him!
- Lex Luthor: ...Superman's address?
- General Zod: Come. The three of us will crush the son of our jailer!”
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor
Sarah Douglas - Ursa
Terence Stamp - General Zod