Star Wars Quotes
[first title card]
Title card/crawl: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Title card/crawl: Luke Skywalker has returned to his home planet of Tatooine in an attempt to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt. Little does Luke know that the GALACTIC EMPIRE has begun construction on a new armored space station even more powerful than the first dreaded Death Star. When completed, this ultimate weapon will spell certain doom for the small band of rebels struggling to restore freedom to the galaxy...
Title card/crawl: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Title card/crawl: Luke Skywalker has returned to his home planet of Tatooine in an attempt to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt. Little does Luke know that the GALACTIC EMPIRE has begun construction on a new armored space station even more powerful than the first dreaded Death Star. When completed, this ultimate weapon will spell certain doom for the small band of rebels struggling to restore freedom to the galaxy...
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Admiral Ackbar: The Shield is down! Commence attack on the Death star's main reactor.
Lando Calrissian: We're on our way, Red group, Gold group, all fighters follow me. Ha ha ha, I told you they'd do it!
Lando Calrissian: We're on our way, Red group, Gold group, all fighters follow me. Ha ha ha, I told you they'd do it!
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Anakin: Are you an angel?
Queen Amidala: What?
Anakin: An angel. I've heard the deep space pilots talk about them. They live on the moons of Iego, I think. They're the most beautiful creatures in the universe.
Queen Amidala: You're a funny little boy. How do you know so much?
Anakin: I listen to all the traders and star pilots who come through here. I'm a pilot, you know, and someday I'm going to fly away from this place.
Queen Amidala: What?
Anakin: An angel. I've heard the deep space pilots talk about them. They live on the moons of Iego, I think. They're the most beautiful creatures in the universe.
Queen Amidala: You're a funny little boy. How do you know so much?
Anakin: I listen to all the traders and star pilots who come through here. I'm a pilot, you know, and someday I'm going to fly away from this place.
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[first title cards]
Title card/crawl: : A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Title card/crawl: : Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict...
Title card/crawl: : A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Title card/crawl: : Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict...
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[while under attack by Star destroyers]
Han Solo: Why do I always think gettin' you home for Life Day is gonna be easy?
Han Solo: Why do I always think gettin' you home for Life Day is gonna be easy?
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Master Vrook Lamar: The dark side is alluring. I fear this quest to find the Star Forge may lead you down an all too familiar path.
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Admiral Dodonna: We've done it, Vandar! The Star Forge is destroyed, and the Sith are routed!
Master Vandar Tokare: But at what cost, Admiral? Where is the Ebon Hawk and her crew?
Master Vandar Tokare: But at what cost, Admiral? Where is the Ebon Hawk and her crew?
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General Rahm Kota: What's going on out there, boy?
Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice: One of the Star Destroyers is headed right for me. I've got to get out of here.
General Rahm Kota: You'll never get clear in time! You need to pull it into the cannon.
Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice: What? You're insane! It's massive!
General Rahm Kota: You're a Jedi, boy! Size means nothing to you. Reach out with the Force and grab that ship, or you will die on this trash heap!
Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice: One of the Star Destroyers is headed right for me. I've got to get out of here.
General Rahm Kota: You'll never get clear in time! You need to pull it into the cannon.
Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice: What? You're insane! It's massive!
General Rahm Kota: You're a Jedi, boy! Size means nothing to you. Reach out with the Force and grab that ship, or you will die on this trash heap!
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Juno Eclipse: [as Starkiller settles into a chair, Juno goes to the controls. Suddenly, tools start floating around her] What... what are you doing?
Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice: Meditating. A Jedi can sometimes sense visions of the future.
Juno Eclipse: [Watching the tools float around the cabin] Have you ever done this before?
Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice: [Half-smiles] I've never been a Jedi before... No... No... Kota!
[He sits up sharply. All the tools drop]
Juno Eclipse: What? What did you see?
Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice: A massive... space station.
[Scene cuts to the Rogue Shadow apporaching the Death Star]
Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice: Meditating. A Jedi can sometimes sense visions of the future.
Juno Eclipse: [Watching the tools float around the cabin] Have you ever done this before?
Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice: [Half-smiles] I've never been a Jedi before... No... No... Kota!
[He sits up sharply. All the tools drop]
Juno Eclipse: What? What did you see?
Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice: A massive... space station.
[Scene cuts to the Rogue Shadow apporaching the Death Star]
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Emperor Palpatine: [as a surfboard is passing by him on the Death Star luggage conveyor belt] Wow, for real?
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Mark Hamill: [Archive footage; reading a line] Fear is their greatest defense. I doubt if the actual security there is much greater than on Appalyer-Sullust and what there is is most likely directed towards a large scale assault.
Mark Hamill: [the present] And I read that line and I thought, Who talks like that?
Mark Hamill: [the present] And I read that line and I thought, Who talks like that?
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Narrator: Just one day into filming, the Sahara was pelted with it's first major rainfall in 50 years.
Robert Watts: We were going out there to shoot. I came out in the morning and the rain was going horizontally down the street this way. I thought, My God! I just called a rest day on the crew and told them to go back to bed because there was no way we were going to shoot on that.
Robert Watts: We were going out there to shoot. I came out in the morning and the rain was going horizontally down the street this way. I thought, My God! I just called a rest day on the crew and told them to go back to bed because there was no way we were going to shoot on that.
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Peter Mayhew: [as Chewbacca] That old man's mad.
Harrison Ford: You said it, Chewie. Boy, where'd you dig up that old fossil?
Harrison Ford: You said it, Chewie. Boy, where'd you dig up that old fossil?
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Harrison Ford: I think George likes people, I think George is a warm-hearted person, but... He's a little impatient with the process of acting, of finding something. He thinks that something's there. It's right there, I wrote it down. Do that. You know. Sometimes you can't just *do that* and make it work.
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Carrie Fisher: I had one outfit for the first movie and as George taught me, there is no underwear in space. Instead of that, there's gaffer tape. So I was taped down. And I used to say we should just make up a contest on the call sheet to see who's going to rip it off. But we didn't do that.
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Gareth Wigan: George was enormously farsighted. The studio wasn't. They didn't know that the world was changing. George did know the world was changing. I mean, he changed it.
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Frank Oz: [about Stuart Freeborn] He was under the gun and it was very tense. Very tense. He had to get this thing done. We've got to start shooting with Yoda. And so while we were talking to him, I just had Yoda's head and I was just playing with it then I dropped it and it cracked. Then Stuart said, I need a drink. So it was terrible, because here we're pressing so much and I'm the one that screwed it up.
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George Lucas: [about Yoda] That was like a real leap. Because if that puppet had not worked, the whole film would have been down the tubes. It would've been a disaster. A silly little Muppet... It would've been Kermit running around in that movie. The whole movie would've collapsed under the weight of it.
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Anthony Daniels: I was there for a while and then I thought, well nearly time to go. And then, kind of over George's shoulder, I saw a painting. And the most extraordinary thing happened. It just struck me because I kind of looked at this face, and the face looked back at me. We had the most extraordinary eye contact you know, he's looking right out of the picture. And he seemed to be saying, Come. Come. Be with me, and the vulnerability in his face made me want to help him. Isn't that weird? He just looks utterly vulnerable. That painting completely changed my attitude to the whole project. Years later, I was able to go to Ralph McQuarrie and say, You realize this is all your fault?.
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Harrison Ford: It's what the idea was of the character relationships. Mark was the callow youth and I was the smart ass and we each had a clear section of turf to explore.
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Harrison Ford: There's a princess with weird buns in her hair, a giant in a monkey suit or something, it was weird. It was very, very weird.
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Carrie Fisher: [about the scene of Luke and Leia swinging across the chasm via rope] That was really early on in the shoot when I was still worried about my weight, and I thought that we were going to miss and I'd hit the wall and they would say, Nah, still too tubby. Let's bring in Jodie Foster.
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Mark Hamill: The things that stick in my mind and make me laugh were, like, memos worried about whether or not the Wookie should have pants. They're looking at this thing and saying, Couldn't he have some lederhosen? This is great. Of all the things to worry about, the Wookie has no pants.
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David Prowse: [as Darth Vader] Start tearing this ship apart piece by piece until you've found those tapes. Find the passengers in this vessel. I want them alive!
Ken Ralston: I can still hear David Prowse's accent in the Darth Vader mask, muffled, because he would do the real dialogue, trying to curse Carrie Fisher or something. It was hilarious and terrifying at the same time, because we didn't know what Darth sounded like. That was the first time we heard him. We're like, Is that it? Is he gonna be some Scottish guy? What is this?
Ken Ralston: I can still hear David Prowse's accent in the Darth Vader mask, muffled, because he would do the real dialogue, trying to curse Carrie Fisher or something. It was hilarious and terrifying at the same time, because we didn't know what Darth sounded like. That was the first time we heard him. We're like, Is that it? Is he gonna be some Scottish guy? What is this?
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Carrie Fisher: We signed away our likeness so when I look in the mirror, I have to pay George a couple of bucks.
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Mark Hamill: I lit up when I found out that they were going to make my face a mask on a box of cereal. With little dots where to cut my eyes out. The idea of me being on bubble gum cards, I thought you had to have athletic ability to be a bubble gum card so, I enjoyed the merchandising aspect of it.
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James Earl Jones: George had hired David Prowse, but he said he wanted a so-called darker voice. Not in terms of ethnic but in terms of timbre. And the rumor is that he thought of Orson Welles. But he probably thought that Orson might be too recognizable, so what he ends up doing is picking a voice that was born in Mississippi, raised in Michigan, and was a stutterer. And that happened to be my voice.
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