![]() I didn’t really put it together at the time, it was only afterwards that I thought to myself, ‘that’s what Krishnamurti is talking about.’ Because Krishnamurti said things like, ‘Be aware when you’re unaware.’ How could you understand that? ‘When the eagle flies, it leaves no mark.’ It was just beyond me. And the Pasolini thing did sort of coincide with that. He gave me an intellectual understanding that you could live your life being asleep or you could live your life being awake. But I had the feeling that he had kind of lit a straw and many years later the whole haystack burnt down, because my life did begin to change after that meeting with him. And he took me out for a walk and he talked to me, and I talked a lot, I talked at him, and he said things that I didn’t understand. SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, Terence Stamp, 1968 THE MIND OF MR.I remember being invited to lunch with Krishnamurti and everybody saying, ‘You must go! My God!’ I said, ‘Why? What’s so special?’ They said, ‘Well, he’s enlightened.’ I said, ‘What’s that? What does that mean? What’s “enlightened”?’ They said, ‘Don’t worry, you’ll understand.’ And then when I met him and sat opposite him at lunch, I just knew I had never come across anybody like that before. ©Universal Pictures BLUE, Terence Stamp, 1968 YOUNG GUNS, Kiefer Sutherland, Terence Stamp, Christopher Caine, 1988. LEGAL EAGLES, Debra Winger (center), Terence Stamp (right), 1986. GET SMART, Ken Davitian, Steve Carell, Terence Stamp, 2008. BLUE, Terence Stamp (center), Ricardo Montalban, 1968 ELEKTRA, Terence Stamp (left), Jennifer Garner (right), 2005, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. POOR COW, Terence Stamp, Carole White, 1967 MODESTY BLAISE, from left: Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, 1966, TM & Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. Superman II Photos BILLY BUDD, Terence Stamp, Ronald Lewis, 1962 THE COLLECTOR, from left: director William Wyler, Terence Stamp, on the set, 1965 MODESTY BLAISE, from left, Terence Stamp, Monica Vitti, 1966, ©20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright MODESTY BLAISE, Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, 1966, (c) 20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright TEOREMA, Terence Stamp, 1968 SUPERMAN II, Terence Stamp, Jack O'Halloran, Sarah Douglas, 1980, © WB FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, from left: Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, 1967 MODESTY BLAISE, Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, 1966, (c) 20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright TEOREMA, Anne Wiazemsky, Terence Stamp, 1968 MODESTY BLAISE, Dirk Bogarde, Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, 1966. Ever since, Stamp managed to turn himself into a respected character actor, consistently remaining busy at an age when most actors contemplate retirement. But later Stamp emerged after a nearly decade-long sabbatical to play the megalomaniacal super-villain General Zod in "Superman: The Movie" (1978) and its sequel, "Superman II" (1980). After his breathtaking early success, however, Stamp's career entered into a significant slump in the late 60s. An icon of British cinema's wave of "angry young men," Stamp's portrayals - like those of his contemporaries Oliver Reed, Michael Caine and Albert Finney - inhabited shades of gray, walking the line between traditional protagonists and flawed anti-heroes. Breaking into show business in the early 1960s, Stamp landed his first leading role at the age of 23 in "Billy Budd" (1962), the acclaimed adaptation of Herman Melville's dense novella. ![]() Named by Empire Magazine in 1995 as one of the 100 Sexiest Film Stars of All Time, British actor Terence Stamp typically found himself cast as urbane, sophisticated bad guys throughout his career.
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