"As an actor, you find yourself in many unusual places." "He's terrible. Never turns up. Sends his funny little dummy that gets moved around...most unprofessional." On his co-star "Yoda" in the "Star Wars" films "George felt that it was just and proper. When he made Empire, we hadn't met, and he didn't have a particular idea of who would play the Emperor or how the character would develop. And he had no notion that he would do the back-story - Episodes I, II, and III. So whoever played the Emperor in a mask and added to Revill's voice wouldn't seem authentic to the people who are going to watch the entire saga in the right order. It wouldn't make any sense. Since I was the Emperor [in the other Star Wars films], it felt appropriate that I should be inserted into Empire, and that's what George did." (on digitally replacing Clive Revill in the DVD release of The Empire Strikes Back) "And then of course I thought Palpatine was a pretty good character. I like the notion that he didn't have any psychological subtlety or depth, that he was just solidly evil and the dirtiest word in his vocabulary was 'friend'. I thought that was terrific." "That's a pattern I'm very happy with. I mean I take theater seriously and I am primarily a stage actor and every now and again a movie comes along and I'm happy to do it if the part's good." [on his role as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in "Star Wars"] To wear the costume to play the character I'm playing is wonderfully empowering. The colors, the textures...people keep coming up to me and saying, 'Is it rubber? Is it leather?' I don't quite know what it is. It feels reptilian, which is exactly right.