Mark Hamill Quotes

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George (Lucas) would do it.

"Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were."

"I had the accident way before Star Wars came out, but what really happened has been terribly distorted. I broke my nose, that's it! But I've read accounts about how my face has been reconstructed with plastic surgery and how I was pulling myself along the highway with one arm looking for help. I even heard that I drove off a cliff! That's the best one of all." - Mark Hamill on his auto accident.

The idea of The Force is basically "Religion's Greatest Hits".

"You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that."

"You know where [the pride] comes from? It's not so much from the industry ... but the 9-year-old kid who looks at you like a cross between Superman and Santa Claus. And you'd have to be a really, really hardened cynic not to be moved by that. Not only that, but just doing the interviews for this animation series, I can't tell you how many people have said, 'I got into the business because of that movie.' ... I totally understand that because I remember walking out of
Jason and the Argonauts and saying, 'I don't know how they got those skeletons to fight, but someday I want that to be my job. To make skeletons fight.'"

"I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like
Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family. I just didn't have the skills to pull that off and so I've gravitated toward theater because I like all of it."

"I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be."

"I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it's going to be in 3D, then it's going to be smellivision, then it's going to be a ride in an amusement park, then they'll come to your house and perform it with puppets on your lawn ... it'll never end! I accepted that a long time ago."

"I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have
Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship."