"A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack."
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"Do or do not. There is no try. Only do."
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"I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay."
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"When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit -- I do nothing."
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"I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something."
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"Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It's not about that. It's about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way."
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"First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person."
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"Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there."
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"In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead."
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"I'm always amused that people zero in on one thing, and it's the wrong thing to zero in on, but nevertheless, the reason they do that is because the voice is what they know - the voice represents everything about the character, that's why."
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"I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth."
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"I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same."
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"Impossible to see, the future is."
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"I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is."
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"I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things."
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"I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director."
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"I don't like to have these words banded about, like "British sense of humor," "American sense of humor," though I'll be damned if I know what they are."
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"I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up. I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is."
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"I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things. I'm looking for something a bit tougher, more muscle mass, something small, but the thing is, I get all the best comedy scripts, I don't get all the best drama scripts. So I'll just go with what's the best script."
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"I'm most proud of my kids, for one, and my family and my parents. Outside of that - what am I proud of? I don't know. I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something. And I'm doing some very decent work."
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