Peter Mayhew quotes:

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

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

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

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 can buy at a reasonable price.

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