David Prowse Quotes

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

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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 how they respond to Vader.

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

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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 he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!

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

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

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

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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 a big boost for the campaign but it couldn’t be worked out.

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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 for me – one of them being Star Wars.

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

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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 course while the poor planet is being blown up I’m smiling and laughing like mad!

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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 Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

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

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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, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!

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

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• As a director he was not that interested in Vader.

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

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• Actually I’m not that involved in the fan site.

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David Prowse (18)

Birth:	1st July, 1935
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Bodybuilder, Weightlifter

About

David Prowse was born in Bristol, England. He is an English bodybuilder, weightlifter and actor. He played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, though the character's voice was provided by James Earl Jones. He appeared as the Black Knight in the Terry Gilliam film Jabberwocky. In May 2010, he played Frank Bryan in The Kindness of Strangers, an independent British film produced by Queen Bee Films. Prowse won the British heavyweight weightlifting championship in 1962 and the following two years. He represented England in the weightlifting event at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.

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