Peter Mayhew Quotes

#1. When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.

Peter Mayhew

#2. In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.

Justin Timberlake

#3. The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook what I felt like cooking. And you could eat it or not.

Steve Albini

#4. A kiss for luck, demoiselle?"
It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last.
Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.

R.L. LaFevers

#5. When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

Peter Mayhew

#6. Let my soul live as if separated from my body.

John Of The Cross

#7. After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.

Peter Mayhew

#8. I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

Peter Mayhew

#9. A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.

Peter Mayhew

#10. I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.

Lana Del Rey

#11. George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

Peter Mayhew

#12. With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.

Peter Mayhew

#13. But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.

Peter Mayhew

#14. It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.

Peter Mayhew

#15. Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

Peter Mayhew

#16. George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.

Peter Mayhew

#17. It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

Donnie Yen

#18. Falling is one of the ways of moving.

Merce Cunningham

#19. With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.

Peter Mayhew

#20. The dark-haired clothes horse, who generally meant well, was a dufus, but he was family

Tina Folsom

#21. I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.

Peter Mayhew

#22. I would be heavenly if baby you'd just rescue me now

Matt Nathanson

#23. Axel smiled. "They say that good judgment comes from experience. And experience come from bad judgment." Alec laughed...

Ward Just

#24. Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

Peter Mayhew

#25. In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

William J. Clinton

#26. I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.

Peter Mayhew

#27. I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

Peter Mayhew

#28. I think the things I wanted answered have been answered by people in the know that we can't talk about, so I'm perfectly happy with how Chewie came to be where he is and what is going on in Episode III.

Peter Mayhew

#29. They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

Peter Mayhew

#30. That's cool." Hale nodded, unfazed. "But just so you know, that"
he pointed to the piece of metal peeking out from behind the stage
"is a Hurst 5,000 PSI hydraulic spreader-cutter, more commonly know as the Jaws of Life."
"So?"
"So I'm not a normal boy.

Ally Carter

#31. I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

Peter Mayhew

#32. After a while, the character sort of took over.

Peter Mayhew

#33. Perhaps I'll call it Luncheon on the Grass, then," said Manet. "Since I've clearly forgotten to paint the model wet enough.

Christopher Moore

#34. One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message to women directors, producers, writers - anyone who wants to work in the business. Your voice counts. Your vision matters.

Melissa Silverstein

#35. Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.

Peter Mayhew

#36. If your salvation was dependent on your ability to read and understand scripture, Jesus would have been an author.

Steve Maraboli