Peter Mayhew Quotes

• With Star Wars fans, there’s so much enthusiasm, and it’s a completely different generation now.

  Peter Mayhew

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• With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.

  Peter Mayhew

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• When you’ve got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it’s too much.

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• When you consider that you’re a character that doesn’t speak, but you’ve still got to react to the other actors, you’ve got to make a noise of some kind.

  Peter Mayhew

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• This has been the best thing that ever happened to me.

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• They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

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• Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor’s director.

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• 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 how to stroke my hair when I won.

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• 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 know I was doing it.

  Peter Mayhew

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• I think the things I wanted answered have been answered by people in the know that we can’t talk about, so I’m perfectly happy with how Chewie came to be where he is and what is going on in Episode III.

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• 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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• I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

  Peter Mayhew

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• 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 been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.

  Peter Mayhew

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• I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.

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• I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

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• George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.

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• George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I’d do any character he might create.

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• Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

  Peter Mayhew

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• But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.

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• After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.

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Peter Mayhew (22)

Birth:	12th December, 1962
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Analyst, Author, Broadcaster, Journalist

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