Peter Mayhew Quotes

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

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

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`s curious that when you look down at people you see their defects, their irregularities more clearly. I like my bird`s-eye view. I think it`s what gives Chewie his pride, his bigness. Bigness of heart.

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

After a while, the character sort of took over.

But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.

When you consider that you`re a character that doesn`t speak, but you`ve still got to react to the other actors, you`ve got to make a noise of some kind.

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

I think the main thing was that the character couldn`t speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

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

When we first put the costume on, you could see the human shape underneath, so the padding gave Chewie his rounded shape, really.

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.

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

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.

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.

This has been the best thing that ever happened to me.

I was in the costume department having the costume made the next day, and we were shooting two weeks later when the main unit returned from Tunisia.

I think the things I wanted answered have been answered by people in the know that we can`t talk about, so I`m perfectly happy with how Chewie came to be where he is and what is going on in Episode III.

They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

Then I put on the new suit they`d made and it felt wonderful to climb back into it and feel the character coming back out again.

When I go to restaurants I can never get my legs under a table. I bump my head in planes. People who sit behind me in the theater hate me. But I have given up apologizing to the world.

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

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

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