50 Best Terence Stamp Quotes

Mitzi: [as Felicia starts painting over the graffiti on their bus, which is stranded in the middle of nowhere] Purple?
Felicia: It's not *purple*, it's *lavender*. Whaddaya think?
Mitzi: It's nice... in a hideous sort of a way.
Mitzi: [to Bernadette, who has started walking off] Where are *you* going?
Bernadette: If you think I'm going to sit around watching Picasso take on the public transit system, you've got another thing coming. I'll be back with the cavalry in a couple of hours.

General: No one may leave without my permis -
[spots Willie escaping on horseback]
General: I said no one leaves!
[at Zod's direction, Non hurls a projectile, obliterating Willie and his horse]
Woman: He was only a boy!
Ursa: Who will never become a man!

Lex: [to Zod and Company, at the half-wrecked White House] ... Hi! Lex Luthor.
[no reaction from the Super Villains]
Lex: LEX LUTHOR! Possibly you've heard the name? the Greatest Criminal Mind on Earth!
Ursa: I told you this was a puny planet.
[moves menacingly towards Luthor]
Lex: Whoa whoa whoa wait... why don't you get to know me better?
[Ursa continues moving towards Luthor]
Lex: WAIT! I can give you anything! The... the... the... the Brass Ring, unlimited freedom to maim and kill! PLUS! Lex Luthor's keen mind, Lex Luthor's savvy, Lex Luthor's school of career guidance...
[Ursa begins crushing his hand]
General: We already have this without you. You cannot bargain with what you don't have.
Lex: [sucking on his thumb to numb the pain] Oh Great One, what I am bargaining with is what YOU do not have: The Son of Jor-El.
General: The Son of Jor-El?
Lex: [confused] I just said that.
General: Jor-El? Our jailer?
Lex: [sarcastically] No, Jor-El the BASEBALL PLAYER...
[Ursa and Non start moving menacingly towards Luthor]
Lex: Yes, Jor-El your jailer.
General: The Son of Jor-El! On this planet!
Lex: Perhaps you know him better by his nom de voyage, or the name he travels under: Superman.
General: So THIS is Superman! How do you know of Jor-El?
Lex: Well, Your Excellency, as I explained earlier: I'm about the best there is.
General: Revenge! We will kill the son of our jailer!
Ursa: Revenge!
Lex: REVENGE! Now we're cooking!
General: He flies then?
Lex: Constantly.
General: He has powers as we do?
Lex: Certainly. But, oh Magnificent One, he is one, while you are three.
[Non growls]
Lex: Or four, if you count him twice!
General: Come! We will bring him to his knees!
Ursa: Praying!
General: Yes, to ME!
Lex: Wait!
[the Super Villains turn to face Luthor]
Lex: First you must find him... and Lex Baby is the only one who knows where he is...

Ursa: [after their carnage on the moon] Strange, I tore those metal fibers like paper. And what HE did... was amazing! Something is happening...
General: Yes, to all of us. The closer we come to an atmosphere with only one sun, a yellow sun, the more our molecular density gives us unlimited powers.
Ursa: [pointing to Earth] They come from there, a place called Houston.
General: Then we will go there to rule. FINALLY, to rule.
[turning to Ursa]
General: And you, will shall everything you wish.
Ursa: Men! To kill!
General: And I will lead!

Bernadette: Tony, Adam. This is Mr. and Mrs. Spencer.
Tick: Hello.
Felicia: Hello.
[the car drives off leaving them stranded]
Felicia: No, wait. Stop! Shit!.

Silver: When you see Alex in whatever little hell she's currently in, you tell her I said hello.

Bernadette: [to Bob] Believe me, Bob, these days gentlemen are an endangered species. Unlike bloody drag queens who just keep breeding like rabbits.

President: [on T.V] This is your President. On behalf of my country and in the name of the other leaders of the world with whom I have today consulted, I hereby abdicate all authority and control over this planet to General Zod. Only by following all his directives will the lives of millions be spared...
[desperately]
President: Superman! Can you hear me? Superman! Where are you...
General: Who is this Superman?
President: You'll find out and when you do-...
General: Come to me, Superman! I defy you! Come and kneel before Zod! Zod!

Felicia: [in sweet voice] Mummy, maybe a trip to the outback will help me get over this little... phase I'm going through. And you never know, I might meet some lovely country girl.
[in tough voice]
Felicia: I hereby christen this budget Barbie camper... Priscilla. Queen of the Desert!
[smashes champagne bottle against bus]
Bernadette: That's gotta be the understatement of the century.

Bernadette: Stop flexing your muscles, you big pile of budgie turd. I'm sure your mates will be much more impressed if you just go back to the pub and fuck a couple of pigs on the bar.
Bob: Bernadette, please.
Frank: *Bernadette?* Well I'll be darned. The whole circus is in town. Well I suppose you wanna fuck too do you? Come on Bernadette, come and fuck me. That's it. Come on. Come and fuck me. Come on. Fuck me.
[Bernadette knees Frank in the groin]
Bernadette: There, now you're fucked!

[Will gets his fingers cut in a scuffle with Tullio]
Giacomo: Fight. Fight, boy! Fight!

[at the seminar, Carl is asked to come on stage but he refuses]
Terrence: If the molehill won't come to Terrence...
[he slips off his shoes, jumps off the stage and sprints down the aisle towards Carl]
Terrence: Terrence will come to the molehill!

Superman: [at the Fortress of Solitude; whispering to Luthor] Try and get them all into this molecule chamber. It takes away their powers, see... and turns them into ordinary human beings. Now if you could...
[Zod approaches]
Superman: Shh, shh!
Lex: [pauses] General, don't go in there. It's a trap.
Superman: Luthor, you poisonous snake!
Lex: That's a molecule chamber. It turns people like you into people like me.
General: [nods] You've done well, Lex Luthor.
Lex: [pointing] The crystal there activates the mechanism.
General: Lex Luthor, ruler of Australia... activate the machine.
[Non grabs Luthor and flies him up to the control panel]

Bernadette: What a nice dog. What's it's name?
Bob: Herpes. If she's good, she'll heal.

General: Why do you say this to me, when you know that I will kill you for it?

Murphy: WELL. The belted earl has spoken. All I see are hired thieves.
John: These boys are promising young men acquiring an education.
Murphy: Well, I've had you pegged as the type that likes... educatin' young men.

General: Son of Jor-El. We were beginning to think you were a coward.
Superman: I'm not a coward, Zod.
Ursa: Let him prove it!
General: Possibly not. It is extremely likely you are merely a fool. Like father, like son.
Superman: Somehow, I just can't hear you, Zod.
General: [Using his heat vision, he breaks off the entire side of a nearby building and catches it with both hands] Then die, as you deserve to!
[He throws it at Superman, who uses his own heat vision to blow the huge projectile apart]

General: [looking at the Presidential Seal on the floor of the Oval Office] I see you are practiced in worshiping things that fly. Good. Now, rise before Zod.
[the "President" stands up]
General: Kneel before Zod.
[the "President" kneels]
General: You are not the President. No one who leads so many could possibly kneel so quickly.
President: [appears from behind the other men] I'm the man they're protecting. I'm the President. I'll kneel before you, if it will save lives.
General: It will, starting with your own.
Ursa: [walking towards a group of military men] What a backwards planet this must be, where the men wear the ribbons... and the jewelry!
[rips the ribbons off a general's uniform]
President: What I do now, I do for the sake of the people of Earth. But there is one man on this planet who will NEVER kneel before you.
General: Who is this imbecile? Where is he?
President: I wish I knew.
[kneels]
President: Oh God.
General: Zod!

Lex: What am I gonna do with you people, huh? I held up my end, I delivered the blue boy. What do I get from my triple threat? "Bow! Yield! Kneel!" That kind of stuff closes out of town.
General: Why do you say this to me when you know I will kill you for it?
Lex: Kill me? Lex Luthor? Extinguish the greatest criminal flame of our age? Eradicate the only man on Earth with...
Ursa: Kill him!
Lex: ...Superman's address?
General: Come. The three of us will crush the son of our jailer!

General: No! Who else is seeing this?
Reporter: Well, with the satellite link up just about everybody, I mean the whole planet.
General: The whole planet Houston?
Reporter: Earth... The whole planet Earth.
General: [pleased] You may continue.
Reporter: As the extraordinary story continues...
Ursa: [petulantly to Zod] Enough of this! If the whole planet is watching, cannot we show them something more interesting?
Army: Throw down your arms and surrender. This is an order!
Ursa: General Zod does not take orders. He gives them.

Bernadette: [to Felicia] It's funny. We all sit around mindlessly slagging off that vile stink-hole of a city. But in its own strange way, it takes care of us. I don't know if that ugly wall of suburbia's been put there to stop them getting in, or us getting out. Come on. Don't let it drag you down. Let it toughen you up. I can only fight because I've learnt to. Being a man one day and a woman the next isn't an easy thing to do.

[first: General Zod and his minions are on trial. Jor-El states the accusations]
Jor: This is no fantasy, no careless product of wild imagination. No, my good friends. These indictments I have brought you today, specific charges listed herein against the individuals - their acts of treason, their ultimate aim of sedition... These are matters of undeniable fact. I ask you now to pronounce judgement on those accused...
[Jor-El approaches the accused and indicates Non]
Jor: On this... this mindless aberration, whose only means of expression are wanton violence and destruction.
[Jor-El indicates Ursa]
Jor: On the woman Ursa, whose perversions and unreasoning hatred of all mankind have threatened even the children of the planet Krypton.
[Jor-El indicates Zod]
Jor: Finally, General Zod - once trusted by this council, charged with maintaining the defense of the planet Krypton itself. Chief architect of this intended revolution, and author of this insidious plot to establish a new order amongst us - with himself as absolute ruler.
[pause]
Jor: You have heard the evidence. The decision of the council will now be made.
[all members of the Council announce "Guilty!"]
General: The vote must be unanimous, Jor-El. It has therefore now become your decision. You alone will condemn us, if you wish, and you alone will be held responsible by me.
[pause]
General: Join us.
[wordlessly, Jor-El turns and walks off]
General: You have been known to disagree with the council before. Yours could become an important voice in the new order, second only to my own! I offer you a chance for greatness, Jor-El! Take it! Join us!
[Jor-El doesn't even look back]
Jor: [DELETED LINE, mostly to himself] I've seen the likes of your new order, too many times before. And I know only too much about what you call "greatness".
General: You *will* bow down before me, Jor-El! I swear it! No matter if it takes an eternity,
[voice rising to a shout]
General: you *will* bow down before me! Both you and, one day, *your heirs!*
Ursa: [All three criminals are imprisoned within the Phantom Zone] Forgive me...!
General: I shall return...!

Bernadette: [after Felicia tells Bernadette about her ABBA story] What are you telling me? This is an ABBA turd?

Ursa: You are master of all you survey.
General: [bored] So I was yesterday. And the day before.

Felicia: Oh, you can't do that with a ping-pong ball!
Bernadette: Do you wanna bet?

Bernadette: [to Shirley] Now listen here, 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!

Ursa: [after using heat vision on a snake] Did you see that? Did you see what I did? I have powers beyond reason here!
General: We all have them, my dear.

Terrence: 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 have been for years. You don't have a girlfriend, you don't have anything close to a girlfriend and 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, you can't even summon the enthusiasm necessary to masturbate. Am I right, Carl?

"Dirty: There are people who will never secede...
John: Succeed.
"Dirty: Who will never succeed anywhere.
Richard: There's a whole roomful right here.

[last lines]
Terrence: YES! Say it a million times. Then say it a million more. And the word you will have said two million times is...
[looks around and sees everyone at the seminar is naked]
Terrence: Oh, my God.
Yes: [while covering themselves up as best they can] YES!

General: [just before using heat vision on Metropolis] I'll draw his fire... with some of my own.

Mitzi: [about Trumpet] , You know, I never heard him play.
Bernadette: Play? He didn't *play*, dear. Trumpet didn't have a single musical bone in his body. No, Trumpet had an unusually large foreskin. So large, in fact, that he could wrap the entire thing around a Monte Carlo biscuit.

General: [Arriving on Earth after overhearing some NASA astronauts] So this is planet Houston.
[Dips his hand in the lake he has landed in]
General: A very strange surface.

John: I have made a long, steamship journey from London, Mr. Murphy, so I shall be damned if I am persuaded by something as ugly as political corruption. So, I'd like for you to take your threats and your sheriff and get off my property.
L.G. Murphy: You're ambitious, Earl, but you'd be better off selling lady's undergarments in Hampstead.

Bernadette: No, I'll join this conversation on the proviso that we stop bitching about people, talking about wigs, dresses, bust sizes, penises, drugs, night clubs, and bloody Abba!
Tick: Doesn't give us much to talk about then, does it?

Bernadette: [to Felicia] That's just what this country needs: a cock in a frock on a rock.

General: This "super-man" is nothing of the kind; I've discovered his weakness.
Ursa: Yes?
General: He cares. He actually cares for these Earth people.
Ursa: Like pets?
General: I suppose.
Ursa: Sentimental idiot!

Eloise: I know what you did.
Silver: I've done a lot of things, Eloise. You're gonna have to be more specific, luv.

General: [as somebody pulls a gun on him] These humans are beginning to bore me.

Sheriff: [finding General Zod and Company standing on a dirt road, the Sheriff kicks in his car's lights and siren; to Duane] From the look of 'em, I'll bet ten dollars they're from Los Angeles.
[to the Kryptonians]
Sheriff: Hey, you hippies! Get your butts off the road!
General: I like the glow that flashes red like our Krypton sun. But not this irritating noise. Make way.

Bernadette: [to Tick] Don't "Darling", me, Darling. Look at you. You've got a face like a cat's arse.

Terrence: [narrating his audiobook] Chapter 26: Words That Rhyme With Yes. Guess. Mess. Tess. That's a name. Less. A word *and* a name.

Bernadette: Oh. Uh, gather around girls, uh, let me show you a trick. You, um, drink the Gin...
[guzzles the entire contents]
Bernadette: Aaah! Uh, fill the bottle up with water and then put it back in the fridge.
Mitzi: Va-t'en vous. What about the scotch?
Bernadette: Aha! That's where the complimentary tea bags come in handy.

[after their bus breaks down in the middle of the outback]
Tick: What's happening?
Felicia: Um, I don't know.
Bernadette: Oh, my God! Oh, Felicia. Where the Fuckawei?

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.

Ursa: Come forward. Your General wishes to speak.
General: 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.
[rips a Generals stars from his shoulder]
General: So you are a General? And who is your superior?
General: I answer only to the President.
General: And he will answer to me! Or all of his cities will end up like this one.

Superman: General, would you care to step outside?
General: Come to me, son of Jor-El, kneel before Zod!

Tick: [Tick and Bernadette are discussing what it would be like to have children] What happens if they turn out like Adam?
Bernadette: You stuff 'em back in and ask for a refund.

Terrence: You can't audit life, my friend.

General: [picking up the stunned astronaut] Fragile sort of life form, this is.