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David Prowse

(1935–2020) Actor United Kingdom

23 quotes in 141 categories

David Prowse was an actor from the United Kingdom, best known for CompTIA a+ Core 1 (220-1101) and Core 2 (220-1102) Exam Cram.

Quick Facts About David Prowse

Born: July 1, 1935
Died: November 28, 2020
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Actor
Notable works: CompTIA a+ Core 1 (220-1101) and Core 2 (220-1102) Exam Cram

About David Prowse

David Charles Prowse was an English actor, bodybuilder, strongman and weightlifter. He portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy and a manservant in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. In 2015, he starred in two documentaries concerning his Darth Vader role, one titled The Force's Mouth, which included Prowse voicing Darth Vader's lines with studio effects applied for the first time, and the other titled I Am Your Father, covering the subject of the fallout between Prowse and Lucasfilm.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Member of the Order of the British Empire

Quotes by David Prowse

I think it's good to, especially when you start to get to achieve certain levels of success and start doing a lot…

Achieve

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Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

Careers

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I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors…

Cinema

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I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

Excellent

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I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

Better now

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But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

Code

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As a director he was not that interested in Vader.

Cinema

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A really humbling experience that we've had was touring on Post-Nothing, was having people come up to us and tell that story…

Amazing feeling

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The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for…

Able

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I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to…

Facts

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No, I am your father.

Movies

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Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.

Fans

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So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and…

Campaigns

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I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of…

Film

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George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in,…

Casting

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I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Faith

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I think if you think of our lives as musicians, it's craftsmanship. We're not artists, we're more artisans. You know, I don't…

Art

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My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

Agent

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I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.

Cinema

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I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been…

Bigs

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The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.

Agency

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Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

Except

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Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

Actually

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