Terence Quotes

Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.

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.

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

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

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

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.

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

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

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

Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.

Their silence is enough praise.

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.

After my father died, we began to live. He was psychotic. He really was terrifying.

I think people watch TV to escape from life.

I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema.

I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs.

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.

We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.