George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out.

I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.

I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies.

I always think a day when you never get out of your pajamas is a win.

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!

Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

I seek peace, let me BE peace.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.