50 Best C-3PO Quotes

Leia: Wipe that nervous expression off your face, Threepio.
C: Oh. Well, I will certainly try, General. Nervous?

Cad: Artoo? The astromech. Go fetch me his little pal.
[HELIOS-3E replies in droidspeak, then leaves]
C: Oh no. What have I done?

C: Congratulations. You are now a democracy!

C: [after being hit by strange fruit thrown by an unseen jeerer] I don't think that needs translating.

C: We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

- Oh, no!
C: Where is Master Anakin?
- Look. Here he comes.
- ANNOUNCER 2: It looks like Skywalker is moving up in the field.
- He has to complete two more circuits?
- Oh, dear.

Battle: Send them off to the incinerator room with the rest of the pirate scum.
C: The incinerator room?
Battle: Yes. You will be melted down for General Grievous's war machine.

EV: Ah, new acquisitions! You are a protocol droid, are you not?
C: I am C-3PO, human/cyborg...
EV: [cuts him off] Yes or no will do.
C: Umm... yes.
EV: How many languages do you speak?
C: I am fluent in over six million forms of communication, and can readily...
EV: [cuts him off again] Splendid! We have been without an interpreter since our master got angry with our last protocol droid and disintegrated him.
C: Disintegrated?

C: [C-3PO is stuck on a large circular magnet during a droid shootout] Jar Jar, get me down from here!
Jar: Hang on, Three-so!
C: It's *3PO*!

C: Hm, it seems no one wants my company tonight.

- Attention. This is Lando Calrissian.
- Attention. The Empire has taken control of the city.
- I advise everyone to leave before more Imperial troops arrive.
- This way.
C: Well, don't blame me.
- I'm an interpreter.
- I'm not supposed to know a power socket from a computer terminal.

Poe: There's writing on it.
C: Perhaps I can translate. Oh! The location of the wayfinder has been inscribed upon this dagger. It's the clue that Master Luke was looking for.
Poe: And?
Rey: Where's the wayfinder?
C: I am afraid I cannot tell you.
Poe: 20.3 fazillion languages and you can't read that?
C: Oh, I have read it, sir. I know exactly where the wayfinder is. Unfortunately, it is written in the runic language of the Sith.
Rey: So what?
C: My programming forbids me from translating it.
Poe: So you're telling us the one time we need you to talk, you can't?
C: Irony, sir. I am mechanically incapable of speaking translations from Sith. I believe the rule was passed by the Senate of the Old Republic...

[R2D2 beeps]
C: I beg your pardon, but what do you mean, "naked?"
[R2D2 beeps]
C: My parts are showing? Oh, my goodness, oh!

C: R2-D2, oh my, you are a sight for short circuits!

C: I have a bad feeling about thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!
[slips and falls down a hole in the ground]

C: I would much rather have gone with Master Luke than stay here with you. I don't know what all this trouble is about, but I'm sure it must be your fault.
[R2 beeps an angry response]
C: You watch your language!

C: In the event I don't make it back, I want you to know you've been a real friend, R2. My best one, in fact.

- Wait!
- Wait for me! Wait! Stop!
- How typical.
Han: Come on.
Han: Hurry up, goldenrod.
- You're gonna be a permanent resident.
C: Wait! Wait!

C: Jar Jar, you great webfoot! You're squooshing my circuits!

C: Don't worry about Master Luke. I'm sure he'll be all right. He's quite clever, you know... for a human being.

[last lines]
Senator: Captain Antilles.
Captain: Yes, Your Highness?
Senator: I'm placing these droids in your care. Treat them well, clean them up, have the Protocol Droid's mind wiped.
C: What?
[R2-D2 chuckles about coming C-3PO's misfortune]
C: Oh, no.

Leia: They're getting closer.
Han: Oh, yeah? Watch this.
[he throws the hyperdrive lever, the engine sputters and dies]
Leia: Watch what?
Han: I think we're in trouble.
C: If I may say so, sir, I noticed earlier the hyperdrive motivator has been damaged. It's impossible to go to lightspeed!
Han: We're in trouble!

C: I'm programmed for etiquette, not destruction!

C: I'm rather embarrassed, General Solo, but it appears that you are to be the main course at a banquet in my honor.

C: R2, are you quite certain the ship is in this direction?
[R2 bleeps]
C: This way looks potentially dangerous.
[R2 whistles]
C: I know the whole place is dangerous! I suggest we stay here and let Master Anakin find us.
Anakin: [a lift door slides open, revealing Anakin and Padme] 3P0! What are you doing, don't just stand there, let's get back to the ship.

C: I have a very bad feeling about this.

[being chased by two Jet Troopers]
C: Oh! They fly now!
Finn: They fly now?
Poe: They fly now.

C: [after Jar Jar accidentally destroys Padmé's ship; part woefully, part sarcastically] That's the end of our ship... typical!

C: His high exaltedness, the Great Jabba the Hutt, has decreed that you are to be terminated immediately.
Han: Good, I hate long waits.
C: You will therefore be taken to the Dune Sea, and cast into the pit of Carkoon, the nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlaac.
Han: Doesn't sound so bad.
C: In his belly you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a thousand years.
Han: On second thought, let's pass on that, huh?

Cad: [Scene starts off with C-3PO being shock] I don't want this gibberish. I want the plans for the Senate Building.
C: I don't know what you're talking about
Cad: You're Senator Amidala's personal droid.
C: I am a protocol droid, human-cyborg relations. I can translate and instruct on appropriate etiquette, which in your case, sir if you don't mind me saying, is sorely lacking.
[Bane looks at J0-N0, telling him to shock C-3P0 again]
C: That is exactly the type of behavior I am talking about.
J0: According to the analyzer, he's not lying. His head is totally empty of any information useful to us.
C: Empty? I protest, I am fluent in over six million forms of communication.
Cad: Ain't that great? A brainless droid.
C: My lack of knowledge is not an impediment at all.

C: [after his memory is temporarily wiped] I am C-3PO, human/cyborg relations. And you are?
Poe: Okay, that's gonna be a problem.

[repeated line]
C: We're doomed.

[R2-D2 is pulling C-3PO's head back towards his body]
C: This is such a drag.

C: R2, R2, where have you been?
- Wait. Turn around, you woolly...
- Hurry! Hurry! We're trying to save Han from the bounty hunter.
- Well, at least you're still in one piece.
- Look what's happened to me.

C: Master Luke.
[Luke gives him a knowing wink]

- Ouch! Oh! That hurts!
- Bend down, you thoughtless... Ow!
- Leia!
- Go!
C: I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me.
- Of course I've looked better.

- TYPHO: Milady, let me come with you.
- PADMÉ: There's no danger. The fighting's over. And this is personal.
- As you wish, milady, but I strongly disagree.
- I'll be all right, Captain.
- This is something I must do myself.
- Besides, 3PO will look after me.
C: Oh, dear.

C: I'm having a bad feeling about this. With your permission, Senator Padmé, I would like to shut down before I get sensory overload.
Padmé: Permission denied.

C: Oh. They've encased him in Carbonite. He should be quite well protected. If he survived the freezing process, that is.
Darth: Well, Calrissian, did he survive?
Lando: Yes, he's alive, and in perfect hibernation.
Darth: He's all yours, bounty hunter. Reset the chamber for Skywalker.

C: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.
Han: Never tell me the odds.

C: Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

[a crab-like battle droid enters the ship hanger and heads for Jar Jar]
C: [alarmed] Jar Jar, watch out! That battle droid is heading for you!
Jar: Headin' for meesa?
C: [speaking in Gungan lingo] Yes, yousa!

C: This is terrible.

- You haven't finished with me yet.
- You don't know how to fix the hyperdrive.
- Chewbacca can do it.
- I'm standing here in pieces, and you're having delusions of grandeur!
C: You did it!

C: Oh, my. A hex charm.
Poe: A what?
C: A common emblem of Sith loyalists.
Rey: Sith.
Finn: This was Ochi's?
Poe: Luke sensed it. Ochi never left this place.
Finn: And he ended up down here.
Poe: He was headed for his ship. Same thing happened to us, happened to him.
Finn: So how did Ochi get out?
Rey: He didn't.

[With head stuck on a battle droid's body]
C: DIE, Jedi dogs. Oh... what did I say?

[observing the battle droid assembly line]
C: Oh my goodness! Shut me down. Machines building machines. How perverse.

C: Oh, this is suicide!
- There's nowhere to go.
- There. That looks pretty good.
- LEIA: What looks pretty good?
Han: Yeah, that'll do nicely.
C: Excuse me, ma'am, but where are we going?

C: At last, Master Luke's come to rescue me!
Bib: Master.
[Jabba wakes up with a start]
Bib: May I present Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight?
Jabba the Hutt: [in Huttese; subtitled] I told you not to admit him!
Luke: I must be allowed to speak.
Bib: He must be allowed to speak.
Jabba the Hutt: [grabs Bib Fortuna; in Huttese] You weak minded fool! He's using an old Jedi mind trick.
[Jabba shoves Bib Fortuna aside]
Luke: You will bring Captain Solo and the Wookiee to me.
[Jabba laughs]
Jabba the Hutt: [in Huttese] Your mind powers will not work on me, boy.
Luke: Nevertheless, I'm taking Captain Solo and his friends with me. You can either profit by this or be destroyed. It's your choice, but I warn you not to underestimate my powers.
Jabba the Hutt: [in Huttese] There will be no bargain, my young Jedi. I shall enjoy watching you die.

C: I do believe they think I am some sort of god.
Han: Well, why don't you use your divine influence and get us out of this?
C: I beg your pardon General Solo, but that just wouldn't be proper.
Han: Proper?
C: It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.