100 Best Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Quotes

- No, 3PO's with them.
- Just hang on. We're almost there.

- You're not actually going into an asteroid field?
- They'd be crazy to follow us, wouldn't they?
- You don't have to do this to impress me.
- Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.
- Never tell me the odds!

- Skywalker has just landed, lord.
Darth: Good. See to it that he finds his way in here.
- Calrissian, take the princess and the Wookiee to my ship.
- You said they'd be left in the city under my supervision.
- I am altering the deal.
- Pray I don't alter it any further.

Han: Chewie!
- Chewie?
- Chewie!
- All right! Don't lose your temper.
- I'll come right back and give you a hand.

- Ben!
- Ben.
Han: Luke!
- Luke!
- Don't do this, Luke.
- Come on, give me a sign here.

[first lines]
Luke: Echo Three to Echo Seven. Han, old buddy, do you read me?
Han: Loud and clear, kid. What's up?
Luke: Well, I finished my circle. I don't pick up any life readings.
Han: There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser. Sensors are placed. I'm going back.
Luke: Right. I'll see you shortly. There's a meteorite that hit the ground near here. I want to check it out. It won't take long.

- Thank you.
- Would you join me for a little refreshment?
- Everyone's invited, of course.
- Having trouble with your droid?
- No, no problem.
- Why?

- I just got this bucket back together.
- I'm not going to let something tear it apart.
- Oh! Then I'm going with you.
- I think it might be better if I stay behind and guard the ship.
- Oh, no.

- A domain of evil it is.
- In you must go.
- What's in there?
- Only what you take with you.
- Your weapons... you will not need them.

- Help you I can. Yes, mmm.
- I don't think so.
- I'm looking for a great warrior.
- Ah!
- A great warrior.
- Wars not make one great.

Han: Afraid I was gonna leave without giving you a goodbye kiss?
Princess: I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee.
Han: I can arrange that. You could use a good kiss.

- I'm just setting a new course.
- We're not gonna regroup with the others.
- We're going to the Dagobah system.
- Yes, R2?
- That's all right.
- I'd like to keep it on manual control for a while.

Princess: You're not actually going IN to an asteroid field?
Han: They'd be crazy to follow us, wouldn't they?

Darth: [1:06:12] 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. No disintegrations.
Boba: As you wish.

- Lord Vader.
- Yes, Admiral. What is it?
- The Emperor commands you to make contact with him.
- Move the ship out of the asteroid field so that we can send a clear transmission.
- Yes, my lord.

[after choking Captain Needa to death]
Darth: Apology accepted, Captain Needa.

- I feel terrible.
- Gahhh.

Princess: Luke! Luke! Don't! It's a trap! It's a trap!

- Luke.
- Father.
- Son, come with me.
- Ben.
- Why didn't you tell me?
- Chewie!

Yoda: Your weapons, you will not need them.

Yoda: Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred 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, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph! Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!

Darth: Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.

Yoda: I am wondering, why are you here?
Luke: I'm looking for someone.
Yoda: Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say, hmmm?
Luke: Right...
Yoda: Help you I can. Yes, mmmm.
Luke: I don't think so. I'm looking for a great warrior.
Yoda: Ohhh. Great warrior.
[laughs and shakes his head]
Yoda: Wars not make one great.

C: [Interrupting Han and Leia kissing] Sir. Sir, I've isolated the reverse, power flux coupling.
Han: Thank you. Thank you very much.
C: Oh you're perfectly welcome, sir.

Darth: Yes, Admiral?
Admiral: Our ships have sighted the Millennium Falcon, my Lord. But it has entered an asteroid field and we cannot risk...
Darth: [interrupting] Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral! I want that ship, not excuses!
Admiral: Yes, my Lord.

Darth: Luke, you can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.

Han: You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could be it, sweetheart.
Princess: I take it back.

- When you've gotten past the energy shield, proceed directly to the rendezvous point.
- Understood?
- ALL: Yeah.
- Good luck.
- Okay. Everybody to your stations.
- Let's go.

- Echo Station Three-T-Eight.
- We've spotted Imperial walkers.
- CONTROLLER: Imperial walkers on the north ridge.

Princess: The cave is collapsing.
Han: This is no cave.

- Aren't you afraid the Empire's going to find out about this little operation, shut you down?
- It's always been a danger that looms like a shadow over everything we've built.
- But things have developed that'll ensure security.
- I've just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever.

- Sir, I'm fluent in six million forms of communication.
- This signal is not used by the Alliance.
- It could be an Imperial code.
- It isn't friendly, whatever it is.
- Come on, Chewie, let's check it out.
- Send Rogues 10 and 11 to Station 38.

Darth: There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you.
[pauses]
Darth: Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
Luke: I'll never join you!
Darth: If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me *you* killed him!
Darth: No. *I* am your father.
Luke: No. No. That's not true. That's impossible!
Darth: Search your feelings, you *know* it to be true!
Luke: [anguished] No! No!

- Sit down, sweetheart! We're taking off!
- Look!
- I see it. I see it.
C: We're doomed!
- LEIA: The cave is collapsing.
- This is no cave.
- What?

- Calculate every possible destination along their last known trajectory.
- Yes, my lord. We'll find them.
- Don't fail me again...
- Admiral.
- Alert all commands.
- Deploy the fleet.

- Sir! Sir! Might I suggest...
- Shut him up or shut him down!
- Check the deflector shield.
- Great.
- Well, we can still outmanoeuvre them.
- Take evasive action!

- Lord Vader, ship approaching, X-wing class.
- Good. Monitor Skywalker and allow him to land.
- Lord Vader, we only use this facility for carbon freezing.
- You put him in there, it might kill him.
- I do not want the Emperor's prize damaged.
- We will test it on Captain Solo.

- 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.

- LEIA: Mynocks.
- Go on inside. We'll clean them off if there are any more.
- Han!
- Aagghh! Go away, go away, beastly thing!
- Shoo! Shoo!
- Wait a minute...

Echo: Echo station 3-T-8, we have spotted Imperial walkers.

- Steady.
- Stay tight and low.
- This is it!
- Aah!
- Hobbie!
- I've been hit!

- Aaah!
- Obi-Wan has taught you well.
- You have controlled your fear.
- Now... release your anger.
- Only your hatred can destroy me.

- Come, come.
- R2... stay and watch after the camp.

- I saw...I saw a city in the clouds.
- Hmm...
- Friends you have there.
- They were in pain.
- It is the future you see.
- Future?

- Yoda.
- ...but it'll keep you warm... till I get the shelter up.
- Ben... Dagobah...
- Ahhh!
- Ah! I thought they smelled bad on the outside!

- Oh. Jedi master. Yoda.
- You seek Yoda.
- You know him?
- Mmm. Take you to him I will.
[CHUCKLING] Yes, yes, but now we must eat. Come.
- Good food. Come.

- Actually, R2 has been known to make mistakes... from time to time.
- Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
- Don't worry about Master Luke.
- I'm sure he'll be all right.
- He's quite clever, you know, for a human being.

Yoda: You must unlearn what you have learned.

- This won't help me.
- Hey, save your strength.
- There will be another time.
- The princess...
- You have to take care of her.
- Do you hear me? Huh?

- Relax. I'll talk to Lando and see what I can find out.
- I don't trust Lando.
- Well, I don't trust him either.
- But he is my friend. Besides... we'll soon be gone.
- Then you're as good as gone, aren't you?

- But tell me why I can't...
- No, no. There is no why.
- Nothing more will I teach you today.
- Clear your mind of questions.
- Hmm...
- Mmm...

- Lando?
- Okay, let's go.
- Oh, Leia.
Lando: All right, Chewie, let's go.

- This could be it, sweetheart.
- I take it back.
- We're going to get pulverised if we stay out here much longer.
- Ain't gonna argue with that.
C: Pulverised?
- I'm going in closer to one of the big ones.
- Closer?
C: Closer?
- Gahhh!

Han: Hey, Your Worship, I'm only trying to help.
Princess: Would you please stop calling me that?
Han: Sure, Leia.
Princess: You make it so difficult sometimes.
Han: I do, I really do. You could be a little nicer, though. Come on, admit it. Sometimes you think I'm all right.
Princess: Occasionally, maybe... when you aren't acting like a scoundrel.
Han: Scoundrel? Scoundrel... I like the sound of that.
[Han starts to massage Leia's hand]
Princess: Stop that.
Han: Stop what?
Princess: [timidly] Stop that. My hands are dirty.
Han: My hands are dirty, too. What are you afraid of?
Princess: Afraid?
Han: You're trembling.
Princess: I'm not trembling.
[Han moves in closer]
Han: You like me because I'm a scoundrel. There aren't enough scoundrels in your life.
Princess: I happen to like nice men.
Han: I'm a nice man.
Princess: No, you're not...
[they kiss]

- 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!

- Let go.
- Shh!
- Let go, please.
- Don't get excited.
- Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited.
- Sorry, sweetheart.
- I haven't got time for anything else.

- Meanwhile, continue to scan the area.
- Yes, Captain Needa.
Yoda: Use the Force.
- Yes.
- Now, the stone...
- Feel it.

Yoda: Yes, run! Yes, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.
Luke: Vader... Is the dark side stronger?
Yoda: No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
Luke: But how am I to know the good side from the bad?
Yoda: You will know... when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, NEVER for attack.
Luke: But tell my why I can't...
Yoda: No, no! There is no "why".

- You must feel the Force around you.
- Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere!
- Yes...
- Even between the land and the ship.
- You want the impossible.

- 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!

- Look, someone's up there.
- LEIA: It's Luke.
- Chewie, slow down.
- Slow down. We'll get under him.
- Lando, open the top hatch.

- Something's not right because now I can't see.
- Oh, oh, oh, that's much better.
- Wait! Wait!
- Oh, my! What have you done?
- I'm backwards, you flea-bitten furball!
- Only an overgrown mophead like you would be stupid enough...

Han: Well Princess, it looks like you managed to keep me here a while longer.
Princess: I had nothing to do with it. General Rieekan thinks it's dangerous for anyone to leave the system until they've activated the energy shield.
Han: That's a good story. I think you just can't bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight.
Princess: I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain.
[Chewbacca laughs]
Han: Laugh it up, fuzzball.

- Commander Skywalker, do you copy?
- This is Rogue Two.
Han: Good morning.
- Nice of you guys to drop by.
- Echo Base, this is Rogue Two.
- I've found them.
- Repeat, I've found them.

Yoda: Control, control, you must learn control!

- Transport, this is Solo.
- Better take off. I can't get to you.
- I'll get her out on the Falcon.
- Come on.
- B-B-But where are you going?
- Come back!

- We can't?
- How would you know the hyperdrive is deactivated?
- The city's central computer told you?
- R2-D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer.
- Ouch!
- Pay attention to what you're doing!

- My friend.
- Stop!
- I've done all I can.
- I'm sorry I couldn't do better, but I've got my own problems.
- Yeah.
- You're a real hero.

- All right, boys, keep tight now.
- Luke, I have no approach vector.
- I'm not set.
- Steady, Dak.
- Attack pattern Delta. Go now.
- All right. I'm coming in.
- Hobbie, you still with me?

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.

- Uh, not yet. We're having trouble adapting them to the cold.
- We'll have to go out on tauntauns.
- Sir, the temperature's dropping too rapidly.
- That's right, and my friend's out in it.
- DECK OFFICER: Your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker.
- Then I'll see you in hell. Hyah!

[Luke's ship sinks into the mud]
Luke: We'll never get it out now!
Yoda: So certain are you. Always with you what cannot be done. Hear you nothing that I say?

Darth: The force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet.

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!

Luke: I won't fail you. I'm not afraid.
Yoda: You will be. You... will... be.

- Ben.
- Ben, please.
- Ben.
- Leia.

- No, no! No.
- This one goes there.
- That one goes there, right?
- R2, you take good care of Master Luke now, understand?
- And do take good care of yourself.
- Oh, dear. Oh, dear.

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

- Ah! We're not interested in the hyperdrive on the Millennium Falcon.
- It's fixed!
- Just open the door, you stupid lump!
- I never doubted you for a second.
- Wonderful!

- at the east... platform.
- Chewie.
C: I'm terribly sorry about all this.
- After all, he's only a Wookiee.
Boba: Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold.

Yoda: Why wish you become Jedi?
Luke: Well, mostly because of my father, I guess.
Yoda: Ahh... father. Powerful Jedi was he. Powerful Jedi.
Luke: [suspicious] Oh, come on! How can 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: [Looking away from Luke] I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience.
Obi: [voice-over] He will learn patience.
Yoda: Much anger in him... like his father.
Obi: [voice] Was I any different when you taught me?

Princess: [to Han] Well, I guess you don't know everything about women yet.
[Leia gives Luke a kiss in front of Han]

- R2?
- R2!
- Where are you?
- R2!
- You be more careful.
- R2, that way.

- I promise.
Luke: Chewie,
- I'll be waiting for your signal.
- Take care, you two.
- May the Force be with you.
- Gahhh.
- Gahhh.

[a tremor knocks Leia into Solo's arms]
Princess: Let go.
Han: Shh.
Princess: Let go, please.
Han: Don't get excited.
Princess: Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited.
Han: Sorry sweetheart. I haven't got time for anything else.

- I believe, sir, it says that the power coupling on the negative axis has been polarised.
- I'm afraid you'll have to replace it.
- Well, of course I'll have to replace it.
- Here! And, Chewie...
- I think we'd better replace the negative power coupling.

Luke: There's something not right here... I feel cold. Death.
Yoda: [points to a cave opening beneath a large tree] That place... is strong with the dark side of the Force. A domain of evil it is. In you must go.
Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you.

- No. But he's got no love for the Empire,
- I can tell you that.
- Here we go, Chewie. Stand by.
- Detach.
- LEIA: You do have your moments.
- Not many of them, but you do have them.

- Captain Solo! Captain Solo!
- It might.
- Sir, might I suggest that you...
- It can wait.
- This bucket of bolts is never gonna get us past that blockade.
- This baby's got a few surprises left in her, sweetheart.

- Distance to power generators?
- PILOT: 17.28.
- VEERS: Target. Maximum firepower.

- If you're saying coming here was a bad idea,
- I'm beginning to agree with you.
- R2, what are we doing here?
- It's like... something out of a dream or...
- I don't know.
- Maybe I'm just going crazy.

C: If only you'd attached my legs,
- I wouldn't be in this ridiculous position.
- Now remember, Chewbacca, you have a responsibility for me, so don't do anything foolish.

Luke: I don't know. I feel like...
Yoda: Feel like what?
[Luke whips around and pulls out his blaster in defense]
Luke: Like we're being watched.
Yoda: Away put your weapon. I mean you no harm.

- MAN: Permission granted to land on Platform 3-2-7.
- Thank you.
- Nothing to worry about.
- We go way back, Lando and me.
- Who's worried?

Princess: I love you.
Han: I know.

- And my joints are freezing up.
- Don't say things like that!
- Of course we'll see Master Luke again.
- And he'll be quite all right.
- You'll see.
- Stupid little short circuit.
- He'll be quite all right.

- Their primary target will be the power generators.
- Prepare to open shield.
- Sir, Rebel ships are coming into our sector.
- Good. Our first catch of the day.
- Stand by, ion control.
- Fire.

Princess: [annoyed] Why, you stuck up... half-witted... scruffy-looking... Nerf-herder!
Han: [shocked] Who's scruffy-looking?

- Will he finish what he begins?
- I won't fail you.
- I'm not afraid.
- Oh...
- You will be.
- You will be.

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.