Wookieepedia:Quote of the Day/Archive II

"I asked George if he could please read Artoo's beeps to me while I was performing. 'Sure,' said George. So I'd say my lines, and after a long pause, George would go, 'Er, beep, beep, beep,' in this very flat voice. Well, I fired George from that job."
―Anthony Daniels^[src]

"I remember when it came out, I wrote [Peter Cushing] a letter saying 'What on earth is a Grand Moff? And why is he called Tarkin?' He wrote back and said, 'I have no idea!'"
―Christopher Lee^[src]

"I thought it was too wacky for the general public."
―George Lucas, on Star Wars^[src]

"The scenes at the homestead, the rain and then the storm and everything had made the dried lake bed that we were working on very wet and muddy, and so a lot of the trucks got stuck in the mud. And then we got the Tunisian Army to help with their giant tank tow trucks to try to pull out some of the trucks, and they got stuck, and then they got some big tracked vehicles, and they got stuck, and so everything sat there for about two weeks while the lake dried out."
―George Lucas, on commentary for Star Wars^[src]

"I think if I can get a room full of people and they enjoy it, then I've done whatever I hoped to do."
―George Lucas, about Star Wars^[src]

"After Star Wars was released, it became apparent that my story — however many films it took to tell — was only one of thousands that could be told about the characters who inhabit its galaxy. But these were not stories that I was destined to tell. Instead they would spring from the imagination of other writers, inspired by the glimpse of a galaxy that Star Wars provided. Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga."
―George Lucas, from the introduction of Splinter of the Mind's Eye, 1996^[src]

"The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells."
―George Lucas, establishing guidelines for the Expanded Universe in 1977^[src]

"I manage 'action' and 'cut' and 'faster' and 'more intense,' and then, uh, mostly I sit there looking miserable and quiet."
―George Lucas, describing his directing technique in documentary The Beginning: Making Episode I^[src]

"I don't read that stuff. I haven't read any of the novels. I don't know anything about that world. That's a different world than my world."
―George Lucas, on the Expanded Universe^[src]

"I know this is gonna work. I know it's gonna work because it's impossible."
―George Lucas, in the planning stages of The Phantom Menace^[src]

"And to be fair, I did say to George, 'George, you can type this shit, but you can't say it!' And that's the year he gets nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay."
―Harrison Ford, on the making of the first Star Wars film^[src]

"I was once chased through a tube station. They were saying, 'You've got to stop, you're the Emperor, you've got to stop.' And I managed to run faster than them. They only wanted my autograph—it wasn't anything sinister. I thought, 'This is ridiculous—why didn't I just stop and give my autograph and move on?' But it had gone too far by then."
―Ian McDiarmid^[src]

"Of all the things to worry about... the Wookiee has no pants."
―Mark Hamill^[src]

"Banks in our universe spend a lot trying to convince us that they care. In Star Wars, they can bombard your planet from orbit."
―Pablo Hidalgo, commenting on Banking Clan Frigates^[src]

"There is no chin under Kyle Katarn's beard. There is only another fist."
―Pablo Hidalgo, commenting on Kyle Katarn^[src]

"I put that mask on, and Chewie transformed me. I transformed. The attitude was different. The walk was different. Chewie turned on."
―Peter Mayhew^[src]

"The early system of tracking continuity was for a question to be called out (by phone or by yelling down the room or corridor) in the hope that someone would remember and have an answer—very high tech, as you can see."
―Shelly Shapiro, about the days before the Holocron continuity database^[src]

"Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain."
―Crispin Glover, as George McFly, in Back to the Future^[src]

"What can you get a Wookiee for Christmas when he already owns a comb?"
―Santa's droids, singing on the Christmas in the Stars album^[src]

"All right look, there's only one return, okay, and it ain't 'of the King,' it's 'of the Jedi.'"
―Randal Graves, Clerks II^[src]

"Look at me with a straight face and say midichlorians. You can't, can you? As if it wasn't bad enough that he decided to give Darth Vader, one of the most feared men in the galaxy, a nickname like 'Annie.' You can't bloody well be frightened of a guy when in the back of your mind you're thinking that under all that armor he's a little red-headed orphan girl that's likely to burst out into song any minute."
―Lucas from Ctrl+Alt+Delete^[src]

"Oh, no way. I will give you all my Star Wars guys if it is. Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! Except Boba Fett. No matter how sure I am, I never risk the Fett man."
―Peter Griffin^[src]

"A billion robot lives are about to be extinguished! Oh, the Jedis are going to feel this one!"
―Professor Farnsworth in Futurama^[src]

"We're hopelessly outgunned. The Force is with us, but that's about it."
―President of Earth Richard Nixon in Futurama: Bender's Big Score^[src]

"Your tongues can't repel flavor of that magnitude!"
―Admiral Ackbar promoting his new brand of breakfast cereal, from Robot Chicken: Star Wars^[src]

"Now get your seven-foot-two asthmatic ass back here, or I'm gonna tell everyone what a whiny bitch you were about Padamamé or Panda Bear or whatever the hell her name is!"
―Emperor Palpatine, insulting Darth Vader over the phone on Robot Chicken^[src]

"So I threw the senate at him. The whole senate! True story."
―Emperor Palpatine, recounting his confrontation with Yoda in Robot Chicken: Star Wars^[src]

"So, Lone Starr, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
―Dark Helmet, to Lone Starr in Spaceballs^[src]

"Goodbye, or as Chewbacca would say it, 'raaaaaaaargh!'"
―Stephen Colbert^[src]

"TROOPS is filmed on location with the men of the Imperial forces. All suspects are guilty. Period. Otherwise, they wouldn't be suspects, would they?"
―Announcer at the start of TROOPS^[src]

"Prior to The Empire Strikes Back, the thought of writing a song about Yoda had never occurred to me."
―"Weird Al" Yankovic^[src]

"Before I found Wookieepedia, watching a Star Wars film, reading Star Wars materials, or playing a Star Wars video game was pretty straightforward. Now, I can't even look at any of it for a second without checking Wookieepedia to see if 'that character seen to the right of that scene for one second', or 'that character mentioned on page 293' has its own article. It's madness, I tell you! But that madness makes me proud... for I am a Wookieepedian!"
―Adamwankenobi

"I don't like Hayden's dialogue. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like Harrison's. With him, everything's smooth."
―BaronGrackle

"Dude... Panaka became a Moff. That makes him a complete tool."
― Cutch, quoted from Talk:Panaka^[src]

"Seems to me like we are trying to beat a rancor with 20 gamorreans instead of one heavy turbolaser battery."
―User:KeiranHalcyon, on archiving the forums

"Wookieepedia is like swiss cheese, there will always be holes, but it will forever taste good."
―Roron Corobb on Wookieepedia

"Nevil stared at him with – what? Fear? Anger? Obsequious Acceptance? Caedus couldn't tell. The fishy folk were so hard to read, Mon Cals and Quarren alike. He didn't like them anymore."
―Jacen Solo, after killing Tebut^[src]

"Bollux employed a trick he had learned from one of his first human owners, and simply omitted from computations the logical conclusion that his destruction was now a high order of probability. Among humans, he knew, this tactic was called ignoring certain death. Bollux thought of it as excluding counterproductive data."
―Bollux faces down Viceprex Hirken's Mark X Executioner^[src]

"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there came a time of revolution, when Rebels united to challenge a tyrannical Empire."
―Ken Hiller, narrating^[src]

"When Han stepped down the starship's ramp, his face lit with that intense smile that had been known to make men check up and see what their wives were doing."
―Brian Daley, Han Solo at Stars' End^[src]

"Fett floated in a long dreamtime moment, tied to the gambler's last moments of real awareness down in the slime on the floor of the pit, blind, deaf, limbs dissolved, rib cage cracked apart with the tentacles massaging his organs, dreaming of a woman who loved him—Boba Fett had been born to anger, and rage was his life. He struggled up out of the vision, fought it wildly, carried himself up out of the nightmare on the back of a wave of fury and abruptly was back, there in his body with the pain of the burning acid all around him, suffused with a clear, lucid, thinking hatred, an emotion so dark and deep and pure the Dark Lord himself might never have felt its equal.
"He could hear his own heartbeat thudding in his ears and he said, 'I'm going to kill you very slowly,' and he had never meant anything more in his life."
―Daniel Keys Moran (as "J.D. Montgomery"), A Barve Like That: The Tale of Boba Fett^[src]

"He kisses her now with slow, hot lips. He takes his time, as though he had forever, bending her body backward. She has never been kissed like this before."
―Han and Leia's kiss, Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays^[src]

"Whatever minute subcutaneous organ produced fear sweat, it was missing in him. Not because he had been born without it – no sentient creature was – but because he had forced it into nonexistence, excised it from his mind with the razor-sharp scalpel of his will. The ancient Mandalorian warriors, whose lethal battle-gear he wore, had been just as coldly ruthless, according to the legends that were still told and retold in whispers throughout the galaxy. Long ago, when he had first gazed upon one of their empty helmets, a relic of an extinguished terror, he had seen in its narrow, unreadable gaze an image of his own future, of the death-bringing entity he would become."
―Boba Fett's thoughts on the fear he inspires in his captives^[src]

"Shevu had a way of dropping his chin and staring unblinking at you that made it clear he thought you were an idiot."
―Karen Traviss: Bloodlines^[src]

"Mandalorians boast that a shot from one of these pistols can take a starship out of commission. It's an obvious exaggeration, but for safety's sake, most listeners just smile and nod."
―Description of the Mandalorian Heavy Pistol in Knights of the Old Republic^[src]

"Outside, a braid of raspberry red, lemon yellow, and orange orange twisted through the heavens, across a constellation locals called the Silly Rabbit."
―L. Neil Smith, Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon^[src]

"Long ago in a galaxy far, far away... there exists a state of cosmic civil war. A brave alliance of underground freedom fighters has challenged the tyranny and oppression of the awesome Galactic Empire. This is their story!"
―Introduction to Marvel Comics' Star Wars series^[src]

"They outnumber Han thirty to one. Boy, are they in trouble!"
―Cover tagline for Star Wars 101: Far, Far Away^[src]

"The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies weakness, one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars."
―Matthew Stover^[src]

"Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last."
―Matthew Stover^[src]

"This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is already over. Nothing can be done to change it. It is a story of love and loss, brotherhood and betrayal, courage and sacrifice and the death of dreams. It is a story of the blurred line between our best and our worst. It is the story of the end of an age. A strange thing about stories- Though all this happened so long ago and so far away that words cannot describe the time or the distance, it is also happening right now. Right here. It is happening as you read these words. This is how twenty-five millennia come to a close. Corruption and treachery have crushed a thousand years of peace. This is not just the end of a republic; night is falling on civilization itself. This is the twilight of the Jedi. The end starts now."
―Matthew Stover: beginning of the Revenge of the Sith novel^[src]

"At this moment Yoda turned, and Dooku gasped. Whether it was the play of the holomonitors, beaming their views of bleak space and distant battles, or some other trick of the light, Yoda's face was deeply hidden in the shadows, mottled black and blue, so that for one terrible instant he looked exactly like Darth Sidious. Or rather, it was Yoda as he might have been, or could yet become: a Yoda gone rotten, a Yoda whose awesome powers had been utterly unleashed by his connection to the dark side. In a flash Dooku saw how foolish he had been, trying to urge the old Master to the dark side. If Yoda ever turned that way, Sidious himself would be annihilated. The universe had yet to comprehend the kind of evil that a Jedi Knight of nearly nine hundred years could wield."
―Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, by Sean Stewart^[src]

"Darth Vader ruled the Galaxy. Now you can charge him rent."
―Ad for Star Wars Monopoly found on the back cover of Star Wars Insider 38^[src]

"Kre'fey's Question Number One, How can I hurt the Vong today?, was best answered by blowing things up."
―Walter Jon Williams: Destiny's Way^[src]