Peter Mayhew Quotes

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• Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.
• George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.
• I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.
• I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.
• Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.
• 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…
• I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.
• When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.
• With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.
• 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…
• 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…
• With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.
• George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.
• They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.
• But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.
• After a while, the character sort of took over.
• 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…
• This has been the best thing that ever happened to me.
• After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.
• I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

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