Luke Skywalker Quotes in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Luke Skywalker: Breathe. Just breathe. Now reach out. What do you see?

Rey: Light. Darkness. A balance.

Luke Skywalker: It's so much bigger.

[from trailer]

Luke Skywalker: I only know one truth: It's time for the Jedi... to end.

[from trailer]

Luke Skywalker: The Force is strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. My sister has it. You have that power, too.

Princess Leia Organa: General Kenobi. Years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars. Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to present my father's request to you in person, but my ship has fallen under attack, and I'm afraid my mission to bring you to Alderaan has failed. I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.

[pause]

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: [to Luke] You must learn the ways of the Force, if you're to come with me to Alderaan.

Luke Skywalker: Alderaan? I'm not going to Alderaan, I've gotta get *home*, it's late, I'm in for it as it is!

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: I need your help, Luke. She needs your help. I'm getting too old for this sort of thing.

Luke Skywalker: Look, I can't get involved. I've got work to do. It's not that I like the Empire; I hate it, but there's nothing I can do about it right now... It's all such a long way from here.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: That's your uncle talking.

Princess Leia Organa: Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?

Luke Skywalker: Huh? Oh, the uniform.

[Luke takes off Stormtrooper mask]

Luke Skywalker: She's rich.

Han Solo: [interested] Rich?

Luke Skywalker: Rich, powerful. Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be...

Han Solo: What?

Luke Skywalker: Well, more wealth than you can imagine!

Han Solo: I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit.

[approaching the Death Star]

Luke Skywalker: I have a very bad feeling about this.

Princess Leia Organa: It's not over yet.

Han Solo: It is for me, sister. Look, I ain't in this for your revolution, and I'm not in it for you, Princess. I expect to be well paid. I'm in it for the money.

Princess Leia Organa: You needn't worry about your reward. If money is all that you love, then that's what you'll receive.

[to Luke]

Princess Leia Organa: Your friend is quite the mercenary. I wonder if he really cares about anything. Or anybody.

[she stalks out]

Luke Skywalker: [calling after her] I care.

[to Han]

Luke Skywalker: So, what do you think of her, Han?

Han Solo: I'm tryin' not to, kid.

Luke Skywalker: Good.

Han Solo: [baiting him] Still, she's got a lot of spirit. I don't know, whaddya think? You think a princess and a guy like me...

Luke Skywalker: [quickly] No.

Luke Skywalker: You don't believe in the Force, do you?

Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.

Luke Skywalker: [about Princess Leia] They're gonna execute her! Look, a few minutes ago you said you didn't want to just wait here to be captured. Now all you want to do is stay?

Han Solo: Marching into a detention area is not what I had in mind.

Luke Skywalker: But they're gonna kill her!

Han Solo: Better her than me!

Luke Skywalker: [griping about Tatooine] If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from.

[Ponda Baba gives Luke a rough shove and starts yelling at Luke in an alien language which Luke doesn't understand]

Dr. Evazan: [explaining] He doesn't like you.

Luke Skywalker: Sorry.

Dr. Evazan: [grabbing Luke] *I* don't like you either. You just watch yourself. We're wanted men. I have the death sentence on twelve systems.

Luke Skywalker: I'll be careful.

Dr. Evazan: You'll be dead!

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: [intervening] This little one's not worth the effort. Come, let me get you something.

[Dr. Evazan shoves Luke across the room and pulls out a blaster]

Bartender: No blasters! No blasters!

[Obi-Wan ignites his lightsaber, killing Dr. Evazan and severing Ponda Baba's arm]

Luke Skywalker: How did my father die?

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are all but extinct. Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force.

Luke Skywalker: No, my father didn't fight in the Clone Wars. He was a navigator on a spice freighter.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: That's what your uncle told you. He didn't hold with your father's ideals; he felt he should've stayed here and not gotten involved.

Luke Skywalker: You fought in the Clone Wars?

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Yes. I was once a Jedi knight, the same as your father.

Luke Skywalker: I wish I'd known him.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: He was the best star pilot in the galaxy, and a cunning warrior. I understand that you've become quite a good pilot yourself.

[sorrowfully]

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: And he was a good friend.

Uncle Owen: [about C-3PO and R5-D4] Luke! Take these two over to the garage will you, I want them cleaned up before dinner.

Luke Skywalker: But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!

Uncle Owen: You can waste time with your friends when your chores are done.

C-3PO: Is there anything I can do?

Luke Skywalker: Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did.

Luke Skywalker: What is it?

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Your father's light saber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times... before the Empire.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: [as Luke wakes up after being knocked out by Tuskan Raiders] Rest easy, son. You've had a busy day. You're fortunate to be all in one piece.

Luke Skywalker: Ben? Ben Kenobi? Boy, am I glad to see you.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: The Jundland Wastes are not to be traveled lightly. Tell me, young Luke, what brings you out this far?

Luke Skywalker: [indicating R2-D2] This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: [thoughtfully] Obi-Wan Kenobi. Obi-Wan... Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

Luke Skywalker: I think my uncle knows him. He said he was dead.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Oh, he's not dead. Not yet.

Luke Skywalker: You know him?

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: But of course I know him. He's me.

[R2 beeps in surprise]

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: I haven't gone by the name of Obi-Wan since... oh, before you were born.

Luke Skywalker: I don't understand how we got by those troops. I thought we were dead.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded.

[Luke blows up his first TIE fighter]

Luke Skywalker: Got him! I got him!

Han Solo: Great, kid! Don't get cocky.

Luke Skywalker: You know, I think that R2 unit we bought may have been stolen.

Uncle Owen: What makes you think that?

Luke Skywalker: Well, I stumbled across a recording while I was cleaning him. He says that he belongs to someone named Obi-Wan Kenobi. I thought he might have meant old Ben. Do you know what he's talking about?

Uncle Owen: Uh-uh.

Luke Skywalker: I wonder if he's related to Ben.

Uncle Owen: That wizard is just a crazy old man. Now, tomorrow I want you to take that R2 unit to Anchorhead and have its memory erased. That'll be the end of it. It belongs to us now.

Luke Skywalker: But what if this Obi-Wan comes looking for him?

Uncle Owen: He won't. I don't think he exists anymore. He died about the same time as your father.

Luke Skywalker: He knew my father?

Uncle Owen: I told you to forget it.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: There was nothing you could have done, Luke, had you been there. You'd have been killed too, and the droids would now be in the hands of the Empire.

Luke Skywalker: I want to come with you to Alderaan. There's nothing for me here now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father.

Luke Skywalker: So. You got your reward and you're just leaving, then?

Han Solo: That's right, yeah. Got some old debts I gotta pay off with this stuff. Even if I didn't, you don't think I'd be fool enough to stick around here, do you? Why don't you come with us? You're pretty good in a fight. We could use you.

Luke Skywalker: Come on. Why don't you take a look around. You know what's about to happen, what they're up against. They could use a good pilot like you, you're turning your back on them.

Han Solo: What good is a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides, attacking that battle station is not my idea of courage. It's more like, suicide.

Luke Skywalker: [angry] Okay. Take care of yourself Han. I guess that's what you're best at isn't it?

Han Solo: [as Luke walks away] Hey, Luke. May the Force be with you.

[to Chewbacca]

Han Solo: What're you looking at? I know what I'm doing.

Luke Skywalker: I'm Luke Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you.

Princess Leia Organa: You're who?

Luke Skywalker: I'm here to rescue you. I've got your R2 unit. I'm here with Ben Kenobi.

Princess Leia Organa: Ben Kenobi? Where is he?

Luke Skywalker: Come on!

C-3PO: Where could they be?

[R2 beeps at him]

C-3PO: Use the comlink? Oh my! I forgot, I turned it off.

[over the comlink]

C-3PO: Are you there sir?

Luke Skywalker: 3PO?

C-3PO: We've had some problems...

Luke Skywalker: [interrupting] Will you shut up and listen to me! Shut down all the garbage smashers on the detention level, will ya? Do you copy? Shut down all the garbage smashers on the detention level! Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level!

C-3PO: [to R2-D2] No! Shut them *all* down, hurry!

[R2 shuts down the compactors]

Luke Skywalker: What? HAHA! Hey, you did it 3PO!

[Luke, Leia and Han start laughing hysterically; it sounds like screaming]

C-3PO: Listen to them, they're dying R2! Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough, it's all my fault! My poor Master.

Luke Skywalker: 3PO, we're all right! We're all right! Ha ha! Hey, open the pressure maintenance hatch on unit number... where are we? 3263827!

Han Solo: This is *not* gonna work.

Luke Skywalker: Why didn't you say so before?

Han Solo: I *did* say so before.

[Han, Luke, Leia and Chewie land in the trash compactor]

Han Solo: Garbage chute. Really wonderful idea. What an incredible smell you've discovered! Let's get out of here! Get away from there...

Luke Skywalker: No, wait...!

[Han draws his laser pistol and fires at the hatch. The laser bolt ricochets wildly around the small room. Everyone dives for cover in the garbage as the bolt finally explodes]

Luke Skywalker: Will you forget it? I already tried it. It's magnetically sealed!

Princess Leia Organa: Put that thing away, you're gonna get us all killed!

Han Solo: Absolutely, Your Worship. Look, I had everything under control until you led us down here! Now it's not going to take them long to figure out what happened to us.

Princess Leia Organa: It could be worse.

[Garbage creature growls]

Han Solo: It's worse.

Luke Skywalker: There's something alive in here.

Han Solo: That's your imagination.

Luke Skywalker: Something just moved passed my leg.

[sees a tentacle in the water]

Luke Skywalker: Look! Did you see that?

Han Solo: What?

[the tentacle grabs Luke and drags him into the water]

Luke Skywalker: [on first seeing the Millenium Falcon] What a piece of junk!

Han Solo: She'll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself.

Princess Leia Organa: Your friend is quite a mercenary. I wonder if he really cares about anything... or anybody.

Luke Skywalker: I care.

Luke Skywalker: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments.

Han Solo: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.

Luke Skywalker: Come on. Why don't you take a look around? You know what's about to happen, what they're up against. They could use a good pilot like you. You're turning your back on them.

Han Solo: What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides, attacking that battle station ain't my idea of courage. It's more like... suicide.

Luke Skywalker: All right. Well, take care of yourself, Han. I guess that's what you're best at, isn't it?

[starts to storm off]

Han Solo: Hey, Luke... may the Force be with you.

[Luke exits. Chewie growls]

Han Solo: What're you lookin' at? I know what I'm doin'.

Luke Skywalker: You know, between his howling and your blasting everything in sight, it's a wonder the whole station doesn't know we're here.

Han Solo: Bring 'em on, I'd prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around.

Luke Skywalker: Hey Biggs, I told you I'd make it someday.

Biggs: It'll be like old times, Luke. They'll never stop us.

C-3PO: Master Luke, sir. Pardon me for asking, but what should R2 and I do if we're discovered here?

Luke Skywalker: Lock the door.

Han Solo: And hope they don't have blasters.

C-3PO: That isn't very reassuring.

[Han is chasing some Stormtroopers]

Princess Leia Organa: He certainly has courage.

Luke Skywalker: What good will it do us if he gets himself killed? Come on.

[Luke and Leia run off in the opposite direction]

[last lines]

C-3PO: You must repair him! Sir, if any of my circuits or gears will help, I'll gladly donate them.

Luke Skywalker: He'll be all right.

Wuher: Hey! We don't serve their kind here.

Luke Skywalker: What?

Wuher: Your droids. They'll have to wait outside. We don't want them here.

Luke Skywalker: [to Leia] Carrie!

Imperial Officer: [seeing Luke and Han disguised as Stormtroopers taking Chewbacca to the prison level] Where are you taking this... thing?

Luke Skywalker: Prisoner transfer. Cell block 1138?

Imperial Officer: I wasn't notified. I'll have to clear it.

[signals another imperial officer to check Chewbacca; Chewbacca breaks out of his binders]

Han Solo: Look out he's loose!

Luke Skywalker: He'll tear us all apart!

Han Solo: I'll get him!

[they shoot out the security cameras and kill the officers]

Han Solo: Where did you dig up that old fossil?

Luke Skywalker: Ben is a great man.

Han Solo: Yeah, great at getting us into trouble.

Luke Skywalker: You know, I did feel something. I could almost see the remote.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: That's good. You have taken your first step into a larger world.

Luke Skywalker: [to C3PO] All right, come on. And the red one. Come on. Well, come on Red, let's go.

Luke Skywalker: [the red R2 unit blows its top] Uncle Owen!

Uncle Owen: [looks up from paying the Jawa] Yeah?

Luke Skywalker: This R2 unit has a bad motivator, look!

Uncle Owen: [to Jawa] Hey, what are you trying to push on us?

Luke Skywalker: What are you doing hiding back there?

C-3PO: It wasn't my fault, sir, please don't deactivate me. I told him not to go, but he's faulty, malfunctioning. Kept babbling on about his mission.

Princess Leia Organa: [as the ships approach] Here they come.

Luke Skywalker: They're coming in too fast!

[Luke, Obi-Wan, and the droids find the Sandcrawler that the droids were sold from trashed and a majority of the Jawas dead]

Luke Skywalker: It *looks* like the Sandpeople did this, alright. Look, there's gaffi sticks, Bantha tracks. It's just, I never heard of them hit anything this big before.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: They didn't, but we are meant to think they did. These tracks are side-by-side. Sandpeople always ride single file to hide their numbers.

Luke Skywalker: These are the same Jawas that sold us R2 and 3PO.

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: And these blast points, too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.

Luke Skywalker: But why would Imperial troops want to slaughter Jawas? If they traced the robots here, they may have learned who they sold them to and that would lead them back...

[runs towards his Landspeeder]

Luke Skywalker: ... Home!

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Wait, Luke! It's too dangerous!

[Luke boards his Landspeeder and takes off towards his homestead]

Luke Skywalker: I'm not such a bad pilot myself.

[the Millennium Falcon emerges from hyperspace]

Han Solo: What the-? We've come out of hyperspace into a meteor shower, some kind of asteroid collision. It's not on any of the charts!

Luke Skywalker: What's going on?

Han Solo: Our position's correct, except... no Alderaan.

Luke Skywalker: What do you mean? Where is it?

Han Solo: That's what I'm trying to tell you, kid, it ain't there, it's been totally blown away.

Luke Skywalker: *What*? How?

Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Destroyed by the Empire.

Han Solo: The entire starfleet couldn't destroy the whole planet. It'd take a thousand ships, with more firepower than I've...

[alarm sounds]