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Memorable Quotes from
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Dak: Right now I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself.
Yoda: Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.
Princess Leia: Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder.
Han Solo: Who's scruffy-looking?
Admiral Piett: Lord Vader, our ships have completed their scan of the area and found nothing. If the Millennium Falcon went into light-speed, it'll be on the other side of the galaxy by now.
Darth Vader: Alert all commands. Calculate every possible destination along their last known trajectory.
Admiral Piett: Yes, my Lord. We'll find them.
Darth Vader: Don't fail me again, Admiral.
Yoda: Stopped they must be; on this all depends. Only a fully-trained Jedi Knight, with the Force as his ally, will conquer Vader and his Emperor.
Obi-Wan: Patience.
Luke: And sacrifice Han and Leia?
Yoda: If you honor what they fight for? Yes.
Obi-Wan: If you choose to face Vader, you will do it alone. I cannot interfere.
Luke: I understand. R2. Fire up the converters.
Obi-Wan: Luke. Don't give in to hate. That leads to the Dark Side.
Yoda: Strong is Vader. Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.
Luke: I will. And I'll return, I promise.
[Luke has seen a vision of Han, Leia and Chewie being tortured in Cloud City]
Luke: I saw a city in the clouds. They were in pain.
Yoda: It is the future you see.
Luke: Will they die?
Yoda: Difficult to see. Always in motion is future.
Luke: I've gotta go to them.
Yoda: Decide you must what to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could but you would destroy all for which they have fought and suffered.
C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.
Han Solo: Never tell me the odds.
Darth Vader: Yes, Admiral?
Admiral Piett: Our ships have sighted the Millennium Falcon, Lord. But it has entered an asteroid field and we can not risk...
Darth Vader: Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that ship, not excuses.
Emperor: The son of Skywalker must not become a Jedi.
Darth Vader: If he could be turned, he would be a powerful ally.
Emperor: Yes. Yes. He would be a great asset. Can it be done?
Darth Vader: He will join us or die, my master.
Yoda: You must unlearn what you have learned.
Luke: I want my lamp back. I'm gonna need it to get out of this slimy mudhole.
Yoda: Mudhole? Slimy? My home this is.
[a tremor knocks Leia into Solo's arms]
Princess Leia: Let go.
Han Solo: Shh.
Princess Leia: Let go, please.
Han Solo: Don't get excited.
Princess Leia: Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited.
Han Solo: Sorry sweetheart. I haven't got time for anything else.
[Luke can't levitate his X-Wing out of the bog]
Luke: I can't. It's too big.
Yoda: Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.
Yoda: Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.
Han Solo: It's not my fault.
Lando: Punch it.
[Chewbacca attempts to engage the hyperdrive on the Millenium Falcon - it fails]
Lando: They told me they fixed it. I trusted them to fix it. It's not my fault.
Han Solo: Afraid I was gonna leave without giving you a goodbye kiss?
Princess Leia: I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee.
Han Solo: I can arrange that. You could use a good kiss.
Han Solo: Well Princess, it looks like you managed to keep me here a while longer.
Princess Leia: I had nothing to do with it. General Rieekan thinks it's dangerous for anyone to leave the system until they've activated the energy shield.
Han Solo: That's a good story. I think you just can't bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight.
Princess Leia: I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain.
[Chewbacca laughs]
Han Solo: Laugh it up, fuzzball.
Darth Vader: The force is with you young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet.
C-3PO: Artoo says that the chances of survival are 725 to 1. Actually Artoo has been known to make mistakes... from time to time... Oh dear...
Han Solo: Oh. I thought they smelled bad on the *outside*.
Yoda: I am wondering, why are you here?
Luke: I'm looking for someone.
Yoda: Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say, hmmm?
Luke: Right...
Yoda: Help you I can. Yes, mmmm.
Luke: I don't think so. I'm looking for a great warrior.
Yoda: Ohhh. Great warrior.
[laughs and shakes his head]
Yoda: Wars not make one great.
Luke: All right, I'll give it a try.
Yoda: No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.
[Using the Force, Yoda effortlessly frees the X-Wing from the bog]
Luke: I don't, I don't believe it.
Yoda: That is why you fail.
Darth Vader: Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.
Darth Vader: There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you.
[pauses]
Darth Vader: Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
Luke: I'll never join you.
Darth Vader: If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough. He told me you killed him.
Darth Vader: No. *I* am your father.
Luke: No. No. It's not true. That's impossible.
Darth Vader: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Luke: Nooooo. Nooooo.
Princess Leia: I'll be back.
Han Solo: You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could be it, sweetheart.
Princess Leia: I take it back.
Princess Leia: [to Han] Well, I guess you don't know everything about women yet.
[Leia gives Luke a kiss in front of Han]
[Yoda tries to convince Luke not to leave]
Yoda: You must not go!
Luke: But Han and Leia will die if I don't.
[Obi-Wan's Force-spirit suddenly appears]
Obi-Wan: You don't know that. Even Yoda cannot see their fate.
Luke: But I can help them! I feel the Force!
Obi-Wan: But you cannot control it. This is a dangerous time for you, when you will be tempted by the Dark Side of the Force.
[heading into a cave on a large asteroid]
Princess Leia: I hope you know what you're doing.
Han Solo: Yeah, me too.
Luke: I don't know. I feel like...
Yoda: Feel like what?
[Luke whips around and pulls out his blaster in defense]
Luke: Like we're being watched.
Yoda: Away put your weapon. I mean you no harm.
Yoda: Why wish you become Jedi?
Luke: Mostly because of my father, I guess.
Yoda: Ah, father. Powerful Jedi was he, powerful Jedi.
Luke: How could you know my father? You don't even know who I am. I don't even know what I'm doing here. We're wasting our time.
Darth Vader: Your destiny lies with me Skywalker. Obi-Wan knew this to be true.
Luke: No...
Darth Vader: Calrissian. Take the princess and the Wookie to my ship.
Lando: You said they'd be left at the city under my supervision.
Darth Vader: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
Darth Vader: There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the Millennium Falcon. You are free to use any methods necessary, but I want them alive. No disintegrations.
Boba Fett: As you wish.
Imperial Officer: Sir, rebel ships are coming into our sector.
Captain Lennox: Good, our first catch of the day.
[Han reveals his clever plan of escape]
Princess Leia: You have your moments. Not many of them, but you do have them.
Yoda: Yes, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.
Luke: Vader... Is the dark side stronger?
Yoda: No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
Luke: But how am I to know the good side from the bad?
Yoda: You will know... when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
Princess Leia: You're not actually going IN to an asteroid field?
Han Solo: They'd be crazy to follow us, wouldn't they?
[Amid the violence of colliding asteroids]
Princess Leia: [to Han Solo] You don't have to do this to impress me.
[the asteroid quakes]
C-3PO: Sir, it's quite possible this asteroid is not entirely stable.
Han Solo: Not entirely stable. I'm glad you're here to tell us these things. Chewie! Take the Professor in back and plug him into the hyperdrive!
[the Millennium Falcon, under siege, won't start]
Princess Leia: Would it help if I got out and pushed?
Han Solo: It might!
Han Solo: Hey, Your Worship, I'm only trying to help.
Princess Leia: Would you please stop calling me that?
Han Solo: Sure, Leia.
Princess Leia: Oh, you make it so difficult sometimes.
Han Solo: I do, I really do. You could be a little nicer, though. Come on, admit it. Sometimes you think I'm all right.
Princess Leia: Occasionally maybe... when you aren't acting like a scoundrel.
Han Solo: [laughs] Scoundrel? Scoundrel? I like the sound of that.
[Han takes her hand and starts to massage it]
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
Luke: I won't fail you. I'm not afraid.
Yoda: You will be. You will be.
Lando: [greeting "old friend" Han Solo] Why, you slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler.
Lando: What are you doing here?
Han Solo: Ah, repairs. I was hoping you could help me out.
Lando: What have you done to my ship?
Han Solo: YOUR ship? Hey, remember you lost her to me, fair and square.
Darth Vader: You may take Captain Solo to Jabba the Hutt after I have Skywalker.
Boba Fett: He's no good to me dead.
Darth Vader: He will not be permanently damaged.
[as Luke leaves before completing his training]
Yoda: Told you I did. Reckless is he. Now, matters are worse.
Obi-Wan: That boy was our last hope.
Yoda: No. There is another.
C-3PO: Excuse me sir, but might I inquire as to what's going on?
Han Solo: Why not?
C-3PO: Impossible man.
[Han heads out of the Asteroids toward a Star Destroyer]
C-3PO: But Sir. The odds of successfully surviving an attack on an Imperial Star Destroyer are approximately...
Leia: Shut up.
Han Solo: No time to discuss this as a committee.
Princess Leia: I am not a committee.
[Leia and Han prepares to escape in the Falcon]
Princess Leia: This bucket of bolts's never gonna get us past that blockade.
C-3PO: Sir, If I may venture an opinion...
Han Solo: I'm not really interested in your opinion 3PO.
Lando: Lord Vader, what about Leia and the Wookie?
Darth Vader: They must never again leave this city.
Lando: That was never a condition of our agreement, nor was giving Han to this bounty hunter.
Darth Vader: Perhaps you think you're being treated unfairly?
Lando: No.
Darth Vader: Good, because it would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison here.
Lando: [to himself] This deal is getting worse all the time.
Darth Vader: [having cornered Luke during their lightsaber battle] You are beaten. It is useless to resist. Don't let yourself be destroyed as Obi-Wan did.
Echo Base Officer: Echo station 3-T-8, we have spotted Imperial walkers.
Boba Fett: What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me.
Darth Vader: The Empire will compensate you, if he dies. Put him in.
Han Solo: Chewie. This can't help me. There'll be another time. The Princess. You have to take care of her. All right?
[Leia and Han shares a passionate kiss before Han is dragged towards the freezing chamber by the imperials]
Princess Leia: I love you.
Han Solo: I know.
[C-3PO is broken almost beyond repair]
Lando: Having trouble with your droid?
Han Solo: No, no problem. Why?
[after R2-D2 gets fried]
C-3PO: Don't blame me. I'm an interpreter. I'm not supposed to know a power socket from a computer terminal.
[after choking Captain Needa to death]
Darth Vader: Apology accepted, Captain Needa.
[Evacuating the Rebel Hoth base]
Han Solo: [to C-3PO] Hurry up, goldenrod. You're going to be a permanent resident.
C-3PO: Oh. They've encased him in Carbonite. He should be quite well protected. If he survived the freezing process, that is.
Darth Vader: Well, Calrissian, did he survive?
Lando: Yes, he's alive, and in perfect hibernation.
Darth Vader: He's all yours, bounty hunter.
[Darth Vader has just learned of Admiral Ozzel's big blunder, and activates a viewscreen]
Admiral Ozzel: [appearing onscreen with Captain Piett] Lord Vader, the fleet has moved out of lightspeed and we're preparing to...
[Ozzel stops, and suddenly begins to choke, clutching at his throat]
Darth Vader: You have failed me for the last time, Admiral. Captain Piett?
Captain Piett: Yes, my lord?
Darth Vader: Make ready to land our troops beyond their energy field, and deploy the fleet, so that nothing gets off the system.
[beside Piett, Admiral Ozzel utters one last strangled gasp, and falls over dead]
Darth Vader: You are in command now, Admiral Piett.
Admiral Piett: Thank you, Lord Vader.
Darth Vader: All too easy.
Luke: How far away is Yoda?
Yoda: Not far. Yoda not far. Soon you will be with him.
Lando: We're getting out of here.
C-3PO: I knew all along. Had to be a mistake.
Leia: Do you think that after what you did to Han that we're going to trust you?
[Chewbacca starts to strangle Lando]
Lando: I had no choice...
C-3PO: What are you doing? Trust him, trust him.
[Chewbacca is fixing C-3PO]
C-3PO: Oh, yes, that's much better... Something's not right, because now I can't see. Oh, oh, yes, that's much better. Wait... wait. Oh, my. What have you done? I'm BACKWARDS. You flea-bitten furball. Only an overgrown mop-head like you would be stupid enough to...
Leia: They're getting closer.
Han Solo: Oh, yeah? Watch this.
[he throws the hyperdrive lever, the engine sputters and dies]
Leia: Watch what?
Han Solo: I think we're in trouble.
C-3PO: If I may say so, sir, I noticed earlier the hyperdrive motivator has been damaged. It's impossible to go to lightspeed.
Han Solo: We're in trouble.
Leia: I thought you knew this person.
Chewbacca: [Chewie barks something to Han]
Han Solo: Well, that was a long time ago, I'm sure he's forgotten about that.
C-3PO: [Interrupting Han and Leia kissing] Sir. Sir, I've isolated the reverse, power flux coupling.
Han Solo: Thank you. Thank you very much.
C-3PO: Oh you're perfectly welcome, sir.
[Trying to fix the hyperdrive]
Han Solo: Horizontal boosters. Alluvial dampers. Ow. That's not it, bring me the Hydrospanner. I don't know how we're going to get out of this one.
[the ship is hit, causing the tool box to fall on Han]
Han Solo: OW. Chewie.
Darth Vader: Luke, you can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.
C-3PO: I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me.
[R2-D2 bleeps an inquiry]
C-3PO: Of course I've looked better.
[repeated line]
Luke: Ben... Ben. Why didn't you tell me?
C-3PO: Master Luke, Sir, it's so good to see you fully functional again. R2 expresses his relief also.
Han Solo: How are you feeling kid? You don't look so bad to me. You look strong enough to pull the ears off a gundark.
Luke: Thanks to you.
Han Solo: That's two you owe me junior.
Lando: I had no choice. They arrived right before you did. I'm sorry.
Han Solo: Yeah. Well I'm sorry too.
[R2 is trying to open the door, he beeps]
C-3PO: No. We're not interested in the hyperdrive on the Millenium Falcon, it's fixed. Just open the door, you stupid lug.
[He opens the door]
C-3PO: I never doubted him for a second. Wonderful.
[reacting to the arrival of Boba Fett and others]
Admiral Piett: Bounty hunters. We don't need their scum.
Captain Needa: They can't have disappeared. No ship that small has a cloaking device.
C-3PO: I'm terribly sorry about all this. After all, he's only a Wookiee.
C-3PO: Sir, I don't know where your ship learned to communicate, but it has the most peculiar dialect.
Yoda: Control, control. You must learn control.
[after R2D2 is spit out by a swamp creature on Dagobah - the line is changed in the Special Edition]
Luke: You're lucky you don't taste very good.
Darth Vader: What is it, General?
General Veers: My Lord, the fleet has moved out of lightspeed. Com Scan has detected an energy field protecting an area of the sixth planet of the Hoth System. The field is strong enough to deflect any bombardment.
Darth Vader: The Rebels are alerted to our presence. Admiral Ozzel came out of lightspeed too close to the system.
General Veers: He felt surprise was wiser...
Darth Vader: He is as clumsy as he is stupid. General, prepare your troops for a surface attack.
General Veers: Yes, my Lord.
[On the asteroid]
Princess Leia: I have a bad feeling about this...
C-3PO: [about Lando] : Well, he seems very friendly.
Princess Leia: Yes, very friendly...
Lando: [to Leia] You look absolutely beautiful. You truly belong here with us among the clouds.
Princess Leia: [cooly] Thank you.
Princess Leia: We've got to go back. I know were Luke is.
Lando: Lord Vader, we only use this facility for carbon freezing. If you put him in there it might kill him.
Darth Vader: I do not want the Emperor's prize damaged. We will test it on Captain Solo.
General Veers: My lord, I've reached the main power generators. The shield will be down in moments, you may start your landing.
[Wedge and Janson succeeds in bring down an Imperial Walker]
Wedge Antilles: Whoa! That got him!
Darth Vader: You've learned much, young one.
Luke: You'll find I'm full of surprises.
Darth Vader: Yes, Admiral, what is it?
Admiral Piett: The Emperor commands you make contact with him.
Darth Vader: Move the ship out of the asteroid field so that we can send a clear transmission.
Luke: I feel death, cold.
Yoda: That place... is strong with the dark side of the Force. A domain of evil it is. In you must go.
Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you.
Yoda: I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience.
Obi-Wan: He will learn patience.
Yoda: Much anger in him. Like his father.
General Rieekan: I don't think we can protect two transports at a time.
Princess Leia: It's risky but we can't hold out much longer. We have no choice.
General Rieekan: Launch patrols.
Princess Leia: Evacuate remaining ground staff.
Yoda: Your weapons, you will not need them.
Princess Leia: All troop carriers will assemble at the north entrance. The heavy transport ships will leave as soon as they're loaded. Only two fighter escorts per ship. The energy shield can only be opened for a short time, so you'll have to stay very close to your transports.
Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian: Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?
Princess Leia: The ion cannon will fire several shots to make sure any enemy ships will be out of your flight path. When you've gotten past the energy shield, proceed directly to the rendezvous point. Understood? Good luck.
C-3PO: Don't worry about Master Luke. I'm sure he'll be all right. He's quite clever, you know... for a human being.
C-3PO: [R2 is outside the Hoth base, scanning the area] You must come along now R2! It's getting cold and my joints are freezing up.
[R2 Beeps something about Luke]
C-3PO: Don't say things like that! Of course we'll see Master Luke again and he'll be quite all right!
[to himself]
C-3PO: Stupid little short-circuit! He'll be quite all right.
[R2 beeps several times]
[in the Asteroid Field]
Princess Leia: We're going to get pulverized if we stay out here much longer.
Han Solo: I'm not going to argue with that.
C-3PO: Pulverized?
Princess Leia: Some day you're gonna be wrong, I just hope I'm there to see it.
Princess Leia: [to Han] You certainly have a way with people...
Luke: But tell me why I can't...
Yoda: No, no, there is no why. Nothing more will I teach you today. Clear your mind of questions.
[Luke's ship sinks into the mud]
Luke: We'll never get it out now!
Yoda: So certain are you. Always with you it cannot be done. Hear you nothing that I say?
[first title cards]
Title card/crawl: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Title card/crawl: It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy. Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth. The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding young Skywalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of space...
[first lines]
Luke: Echo 3 to Echo 7. Han, old buddy, do you read me?
[last lines]
Lando: Princess, we'll find Han. I promise.
Luke: Chewie, I'll be waiting for your signal. Take care, you two. May the force be with you.
[Han has decided to go searching for Luke]
Echo Base Officer: You'll freeze to death before you reach the first marker!
Han Solo: Then I'll see you in Hell!
Han Solo: [after being tortured] I feel terrible.
Lando: [to Han] You know, seeing you sure brings back a few things. Yeah, I'm responsible now, the price you pay for being successful.
Lando: [seeing Leia for the first time] Hello, what have we here?
Lando: How you doin' Chewbacca? Still hanging around with this loser?
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