Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back quotes

View Quote [The Millenium Falcon has evaded Vader's forces by flying into a tunnel within a large asteroid.]
Han Solo: I'm going to shut everything down but the emergency power systems.
C-3PO: Sir, I'm almost afraid to ask but, does that include shutting me down?
Han Solo: No, I need you to talk to the Falcon and find out what's wrong with the hyperdrive.
[The asteroid shakes.]
C-3PO: Sir, it's quite possible this asteroid is not entirely stable.
Han Solo: [annoyed] Not entirely stable? Well, I'm glad you're here to tell us these things! Chewie, take the professor into the back and plug him into the hyperdrive!
[The asteroid shakes again. Leia falls against Han, who begins holding her.]
Princess Leia Organa: [after a moment] Let go.
Han Solo: Shh!
Princess Leia Organa: Let go, please.
Han Solo: Don't get excited!
Princess Leia Organa: Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited.
Han Solo: [lets go] Sorry sweetheart. I haven't got time for anything else.

View Quote [Luke points a blaster at Yoda.]
Yoda: Away put your weapon, I mean you no harm! I am wondering, why are you here?
Luke Skywalker: I'm looking for someone.
Yoda: Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say. Hmmm?
Luke Skywalker: Right.
Yoda: Help you I can. Yes, mmm.
Luke Skywalker: I don't think so. I'm looking for a great warrior.
Yoda: Oh! Great warrior! [Laughs] Wars make not one great.

View Quote [Leia struggles with a part on the Falcon. Han moves in to help, but is pushed away.]
Han Solo: Hey, Your Worship, I'm only trying to help.
Princess Leia Organa: Would you please stop calling me that?
Han Solo: Sure, Leia.
Princess Leia Organa: 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 alright.
Princess Leia Organa: Occasionally, maybe... when you aren't acting like a scoundrel.
Han Solo: Scoundrel? Scoundrel? I like the sound of that. [Grabs and rubs Leia's hand]
Princess Leia Organa: Stop that.
Han Solo: Stop what?
Princess Leia Organa: [timidly] Stop that! My hands are dirty.
Han Solo: My hands are dirty too. What are you afraid of?
Princess Leia Organa: Afraid?
Han Solo: You're trembling.
Princess Leia Organa: I'm not trembling.
Han Solo: [moving closer to Leia] You like me because I'm a scoundrel. There aren't enough scoundrels in your life.
Princess Leia Organa: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: [moving closer still] I'm a nice man.
Princess Leia Organa: No you're not. You're—
[Han begins to kiss Leia]
C-3PO: [interrupting] Sir! Sir! I've isolated the reverse power flux coupling!
Han Solo: [annoyed] Thank you! Thank you very much!
C-3PO: Oh, you're perfectly welcome, sir.
[Leia walks away.]

View Quote Darth Vader: [stepping down on one knee in front of the Emperor's hologram] What is thy bidding, my master?
Emperor Palpatine: There is a great disturbance in the Force.
Darth Vader: I have felt it.
Emperor Palpatine: We have a new enemy, the young Rebel who destroyed the Death Star. I have no doubt that this boy is the offspring of Anakin Skywalker.
Darth Vader: How is that possible?
Emperor Palpatine: Search your feelings, Lord Vader. You know it to be true. [pauses] He could destroy us.
Darth Vader: He is just a boy. Obi-Wan can no longer help him.
Emperor Palpatine: The Force is strong with him. The son of Skywalker must not become a Jedi.
Darth Vader: If he could be turned, he would become a powerful ally.
Emperor Palpatine: [intrigued] Yes... He would be a great asset. Can it be done?
Darth Vader: He will join us or die, master.

View Quote Luke Skywalker: Look, I'm sure it's delicious. I just don't understand why we can't see Yoda now!
Yoda: [cheerfully] Patience! For the Jedi it is time to eat as well. Eat. [Laughs] eat. Hot. Good food, hmm? Good, hmm?
Luke Skywalker: 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. Root leaf, I cook. Why wish you become Jedi?
Luke Skywalker: Well, mostly because of my father, I guess.
Yoda: Oh, father! Powerful Jedi was he. Powerful Jedi.
Luke Skywalker: Oh, come on! How could you know my father? You don't even know who I am. Oh, I don't even know what I'm doing here! We're wasting our time!
Yoda: [sighs, looks upward] I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: [voice emanates from nowhere] He will learn patience.
Yoda: Much anger in him, like his father.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Was I any different when you taught me?
Yoda: He is not ready!
Luke Skywalker: Yoda? I am ready! I— Ben, I can be a Jedi! Ben tell him I'm rea— [bangs his head on the low ceiling] Ow!
Yoda: [to Luke] Ready are you? What know you of ready? For 800 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, the horizon. Never his mind on where he was [pokes Luke]. Hmm? What he was doing. [paces around] Adventure. Heh! Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things. [turns to Luke and points with his walking stick] You are reckless!
Obi-Wan Kenobi: So was I, if you remember.
Yoda: [still looking at Luke] He is too old. Yes. Too old to begin the training.
Luke Skywalker: But I've learned so much.
Yoda: [looking toward the sky] Will he finish what he begins?
Luke Skywalker: I won't fail you! I'm not afraid.
Yoda: [grimly] Oh! You will be. You will be.

View Quote Han Solo: All right, Chewie. Let's get outta here!
Princess Leia Organa: The Empire is still out there! I don't think it's wise to—
Han Solo: No time to discuss this in a committee!
Princess Leia Organa: I am not a committee!
C-3PO: Sir, the odds of surviving a direct assault on an Imperial Star Destroyer are precisely—
Princess Leia Organa: Shut up!

View Quote [Luke's X-wing sinks into the swamp]
Luke Skywalker: 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?
Luke Skywalker: Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different.
Yoda: No! No different! Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.
Luke Skywalker: Alright, I'll give it a try.
Yoda: No! Try not! Do, or do not. There is no try.
[Luke concentrates, and the X-wing begins to rise out of the swamp. A moment later, however, it sinks the rest of the way, with Yoda and R2-D2 both expressing their disappointment.]
Luke Skywalker: [tired] I can't. It's too big.
Yoda: Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you, hmm? And well you should not, for my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally it is. [looks around him] 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. Everywhere. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere. Yes, even between the land and the ship.
Luke Skywalker: You want the impossible. [starts to walk away]
[Yoda sighs, then concentrates on the ship. Using the Force, he raises it out of the swamp and places it safely on dry land, then looks back to Luke.]
Luke Skywalker: [astonished] I don't believe it!
Yoda: That is why you fail.

View Quote 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. [Points at Boba Fett] No disintegrations!
Boba Fett: [Disappointed] As you wish.

View Quote [Luke is standing on one hand and balancing Yoda on one foot, while moving rocks using the Force. He becomes distracted and falls, sending Yoda tumbling.]
Yoda: Control! Control! You must learn control!
Luke Skywalker: I saw... I saw a city in the clouds.
Yoda: Hmm. Friends you have there.
Luke Skywalker: They were in pain!
Yoda: It is the future you see.
Luke Skywalker: The future? Will they die?
Yoda: Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.
Luke Skywalker: I've gotta 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.

View Quote Yoda: Luke! You must complete the training.
Luke Skywalker: I can't keep the vision out of my head. They're my friends. I've gotta help them.
Yoda: You must not go!
Luke Skywalker: But Han and Leia will die if I don't.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: [appearing in spirit next to Yoda] You don't know that. Even Yoda cannot see their fate.
Luke Skywalker: But I can help them! I feel the Force!
Obi-Wan Kenobi: But you cannot control it! This is a dangerous time for you, when you will be tempted by the Dark Side of the Force.
Yoda: Yes, yes! To Obi-Wan you listen. The cave! Remember your failure at the cave!
Luke Skywalker: But I've learned so much since then. Master Yoda, I promise to return and finish what I've begun. You have my word.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: It is you and your abilities the Emperor wants. That is why your friends are made to suffer.
Luke Skywalker: That's why I have to go.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Luke, I don't want to lose you to the Emperor the way I lost Vader.
Luke Skywalker: You won't.
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. If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Patience!
Luke Skywalker: And sacrifice Han and Leia?
Yoda: If you honor what they fight for, yes!
Obi-Wan Kenobi: If you choose to face Vader, you will do it alone. I cannot interfere.
Luke Skywalker: I understand. R2, fire up the converters.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: 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 Skywalker: I will, and I'll return. I promise.
[Luke's X-Wing takes off]
Yoda: Told you I did. Reckless is he. Now matters are worse.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: That boy is our last hope. [fades from view]
Yoda: No. There is another.

View Quote 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.
Lando Calrissian: Lord Vader, what about Leia and the Wookiee?
Darth Vader: They must never again leave this city.
Lando Calrissian: 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 Calrissian: No.
Darth Vader: Good. It would be unfortunate if I have to leave a garrison here.
Lando Calrissian: [under his breath] This deal is getting worse all the time.

View Quote [Han is being lowered into the carbon freezing chamber.]
Princess Leia Organa: I love you.
Han Solo: I know.

View Quote [Han is frozen in carbonite.]
Darth Vader: Is he alive?
Lando Calrissian: [checks the readout on the carbonite slab] Yes, he's alive... and in perfect hibernation.
Darth Vader: [to Boba Fett] He's all yours, bounty hunter. [to Lando] Now, take the wookiee and Leia to my ship.
Lando Calrissian: That wasn't part of the deal! You said the wookiee and Leia would stay under my protection!
Darth Vader: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further. [departs in an elevator]

View Quote Darth Vader: You have learned much, young one.
Luke Skywalker: You'll find I'm full of surprises.
Darth Vader: Your destiny lies with me, Skywalker. Obi-Wan knew this to be true.
Luke Skywalker: No!