Emperor Quotes

The Americans who went to Iwo Jima knew it would be a tough fight, but they always believed they`d win. The Japanese were told they wouldn`t come home - they were being sent to die for the Emperor. People have made a lot out of that very different cultural approach. But as I got into the storytelling for the two movies (Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)), I realised that the 19-year-olds from both sides had the same fears. They all wrote poignant letters home saying: "I don`t want to die." They were all going through the same thing, despite the cultural differences.

"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)

In the Emperor`s New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.

She`s hugely powerful. She should really be the emperor herself.

Mervyn LeRoy, the director of Quo Vadis, gave me this gem of advice on how to play the Emperor Nero: `The way I see Nero, this is the kinda guy who plays with himself nights`.

The character was like the Prince and the Pauper or more like Greystoke to me. He essentially has not had the same circumstances and experiences. Picard doesn`t have the same baggage that Shinzon carries. So, that was more freeing. He is essentially an orphan and an abused child, who becomes an emperor. There were moves that I had to play with, that did not have anything to do with Picard. The whole film is about why they are not similar. So, the relationship had a ground basis to work from. - on Shinzon, his character from "Nemesis"

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor`s son to marry.

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

Legend has it that the original South Pointing Chariot was built in China three to four thousand years ago for the Yellow Emperor, Huang Di.

As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor`s feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor`s New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Remember, a Jedi`s strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Luke... Luke... do not... do not underestimate the powers of the Emperor or suffer your father`s fate you will. Luke, when gone am I... the last of the Jedi will you be. Luke, the Force runs strong in your family. Pass on what you have learned, Luke. There is... another... Sky... walker.

It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one`s time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops