Quotes

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.

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.

[Luke has seen a vision of Han, Leia and Chewie being tortured in Cloud City]

Luke: I saw - I saw a city in the clouds.

Yoda: [nods] Friends you have there.

Luke: They were in pain...

Yoda: It is the future you see.

Luke: The future?

[pause]

Luke: Will they die?

Yoda: [closes his eyes for a moment] Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.

Luke: I've got to go to them.

Yoda: Decide you must, how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could; but you would destroy all for which they have fought, and suffered.

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: [interupting] Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that ship, not excuses.

Darth Vader: What is thy bidding, my master?

Emperor: There is a great disturbance in the Force.

Darth Vader: I have felt it.

Emperor: We have a new enemy, the young Rebel who destroyed the Death Star. I have no doubt this boy is the offspring of Anakin Skywalker.

Darth Vader: How is that possible?

Emperor: Search your feelings, Lord Vader. You will know it to be true. He could destroy us.

Darth Vader: He's just a boy. Obi-Wan can no longer help him.

Emperor: The Force is strong with him. The son of Skywalker must not become a Jedi.

Darth Vader: If he could be turned, he will become a powerful ally.

Emperor: Yes. He would be a great asset. Can it be done?

Darth Vader: He will join us or die, my master.

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!

[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.

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: 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.

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...

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.

[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.

Princess Leia: I'll be 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: Control, control, you must learn control!

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.

C-3PO: [on Han's escape plan] I really don't see how that is going to help! Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances! The Empire may be gracious enough to...

[Han signals to Leia, who shuts 3PO down]

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.

Imperial Officer: Sir, rebel ships are coming into our sector.

Captain Lennox: Good, our first catch of the day.

Yoda: Yes, run! 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.

Luke: But tell my why I can't...

Yoda: No, no! There is no "why".

[Amid the violence of colliding asteroids]

Princess Leia: [to Han Solo] You don't have to do this to impress me.

[the Millennium Falcon, under siege, won't start]

Princess Leia: [sarcastic] Would it help if I got out and pushed?

Han Solo: [also sarcastic] It might!

Luke: I won't fail you. I'm not afraid.

Yoda: You will be. You... will... be.

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.

[as Luke leaves before completing his training]

Yoda: Told you I did. Reckless is he. Now, matters are worse.

Obi-Wan: That boy is our last hope.

Yoda: No. There is another.

[Han heads out of the Asteroids toward a Star Destroyer]

C-3PO: The odds of successfully surviving an attack on an Imperial Star Destroyer are approximately...

Leia: Shut up!

[Leia and Han prepares to escape in the Falcon]

Princess Leia: This bucket of bolts's never gonna get us past that blockade.

Lando: Lord Vader, what about Leia and the Wookiee?

Darth Vader: They must never again leave this city.

Lando: [outraged] 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: [after a pause; nervous tone] No.

Darth Vader: Good. You know it would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison here.

Lando: [to himself] This deal is getting worse all the time!

Echo Base Officer: Echo station 3-T-8, we have spotted Imperial walkers.

Han Solo: [as Chewie tries to fight off the imperials and free Han] No! Stop, Chewie, stop! Chewie! Chewie this won't help me! Hey! Save your strength. There'll be another time. The Princess. You have to take care of her. You hear me? Huh?

[Leia and Han share a passionate kiss before Han is dragged towards the freezing chamber by the imperials]

Princess Leia: I love you.

Han Solo: I know.

[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.

[evacuating the Rebel Hoth base]

Han Solo: [to C-3PO] Hurry up, goldenrod! Or you're gonna be a permanent resident!

[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.

Luke: How far away is Yoda? Will it take us long to get there?

Yoda: Not far. Yoda not far. Patience. Soon you will be with him.

[Chewbacca is fixing C-3PO]

C-3PO: Oh, yes, that's very good, I like that... Oh!

[the lights in his eyes go out]

C-3PO: Well, now, something's not right, because now I can't see!

[Chewie fiddles with something and his eyes turn back on]

C-3PO: Oh, oh, 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...

[Chewie switches 3PO off]

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.

[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!

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.

C-3PO: Master Luke, Sir, it's so good to see you fully functional again. R2 expresses his relief also.

Lando: I had no choice. They arrived right before you did. I'm sorry.

Han Solo: I'm sorry too.

[reacting to the arrival of Boba Fett and others]

Admiral Piett: Bounty hunters. We don't need that scum.

C-3PO: I'm terribly sorry about all this. After all, he's only a Wookiee.

[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.

[On the asteroid]

Princess Leia: I have a bad feeling about this...

Lando: [to Leia] You look absolutely beautiful. You truly belong here with us among the clouds.

Princess Leia: [cooly] Thank you.

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.

[Wedge and Janson succeeds in bring down an Imperial Walker]

Wedge Antilles: Whoa! That got him!

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.

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.

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: [R2 is outside the Hoth base, scanning the area] You must come along now R2. There's really nothing more we can do. 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, you'll see!

[to himself]

C-3PO: Stupid little short-circuit! He'll be *quite* all right.

[R2 beeps again and keeps scanning]

Princess Leia: Some day you're gonna be wrong, I just hope I'm there to see it.

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.

[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...

[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 Solo: [after being tortured] I feel terrible.

Lando: [seeing Leia for the first time] Hello, what have we here?

Darth Vader: Bring my shuttle.

C-3PO: [in 1997 Special Edition only] Oh, this is suicide! There's nowhere to go.

Luke: [in 1997 Special Edition only] This is it.

Princess Leia: The cave is collapsing.

Han Solo: This is no cave.

Han Solo: What's going on... Buddy?

Lando: You're being put into carbon-freeze.

Darth Vader: [in 1997 Special Edition only] Alert my Star Destroyer to prepare for my arrival.

Lando: I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever.

Darth Vader: There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the Millenium Falcon. You are free to use any methods necessary but I want them alive - no disintegrations!

Boba Fett: As you wish.

[while the Falcon is fleeing from Imperial fighters, and R2-D2 is stitching C-3PO back together]

C-3PO: Noisy brute. Why don't we just go to lightspeed?

R2-D2: [beeps]

C-3PO: We can't? How would you know the hyperdrive is deactivated?

R2-D2: [beeps]

C-3PO: The City's central computer told you? R2-D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer.

[R2's welding arm shocks his ankle]

C-3PO: Ouch! Pay attention to what you're doing!