Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back quotes

View Quote [Han Solo is preparing to leave the Rebel base on Hoth.]
Princess Leia Organa: Han!
Han Solo: Yes, Your Highnessness?
Princess Leia Organa: I thought you had decided to stay.
Han Solo: Well the bounty hunter we ran into in Ord Mantell changed my mind.
Princess Leia Organa: Han, we need you!
Han Solo: We need?
Princess Leia Organa: Yes.
Han Solo: Well, what about you need?
Princess Leia Organa: I need? I don't know what you're talking about.
Han Solo: You probably don't.
Princess Leia Organa: And what precisely am I supposed to know?
Han Solo: Come on! You want me to stay because of the way you feel about me.
Princess Leia Organa: Yes! You're a great help to us, you're a natural leader.
Han Solo: No! That's not it. Come on... [Points at himself] A-ha! Come on!
Princess Leia Organa: You're imagining things.
Han Solo: Am I? Then why are you following me? Afraid I was gonna leave without giving you a goodbye kiss?
Princess Leia Organa: I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee!
Han Solo: I can arrange that. [Angrily storms down the hallway] You could use a good kiss!

View Quote [Leia struggles with a part on the Falcon. Han moves in to help, but is pushed away.]
Han Solo: Hey, Your Worship, I'm only trying to help.
Princess Leia Organa: Would you please stop calling me that?
Han Solo: Sure, Leia.
Princess Leia Organa: You make it so difficult sometimes.
Han Solo: I do, I really do. You could be a little nicer, though. Come on, admit it. Sometimes you think I'm alright.
Princess Leia Organa: Occasionally, maybe... when you aren't acting like a scoundrel.
Han Solo: Scoundrel? Scoundrel? I like the sound of that. [Grabs and rubs Leia's hand]
Princess Leia Organa: Stop that.
Han Solo: Stop what?
Princess Leia Organa: [timidly] Stop that! My hands are dirty.
Han Solo: My hands are dirty too. What are you afraid of?
Princess Leia Organa: Afraid?
Han Solo: You're trembling.
Princess Leia Organa: I'm not trembling.
Han Solo: [moving closer to Leia] You like me because I'm a scoundrel. There aren't enough scoundrels in your life.
Princess Leia Organa: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: [moving closer still] I'm a nice man.
Princess Leia Organa: No you're not. You're—
[Han begins to kiss Leia]
C-3PO: [interrupting] Sir! Sir! I've isolated the reverse power flux coupling!
Han Solo: [annoyed] Thank you! Thank you very much!
C-3PO: Oh, you're perfectly welcome, sir.
[Leia walks away.]

View Quote [Luke is standing on one hand and balancing Yoda on one foot, while moving rocks using the Force. He becomes distracted and falls, sending Yoda tumbling.]
Yoda: Control! Control! You must learn control!
Luke Skywalker: I saw... I saw a city in the clouds.
Yoda: Hmm. Friends you have there.
Luke Skywalker: They were in pain!
Yoda: It is the future you see.
Luke Skywalker: The future? Will they die?
Yoda: Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.
Luke Skywalker: I've gotta go to them.
Yoda: Decide you must how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could, but... you would destroy all for which they have fought and suffered.

View Quote [Luke is stranded out in a harsh snowstorm.]
Obi-Wan Kenobi: [voice comes out of nowhere] Luke. Luke!
Luke Skywalker: [weakly] Ben?
Obi-Wan Kenobi: [spirit appears in front of Luke] You will go to the Dagobah system.
Luke Skywalker: [delirious] Dagobah system?
Obi-Wan Kenobi: There you will learn from Yoda, the Jedi Master who instructed me.

View Quote [Luke points a blaster at Yoda.]
Yoda: Away put your weapon, I mean you no harm! I am wondering, why are you here?
Luke Skywalker: I'm looking for someone.
Yoda: Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say. Hmmm?
Luke Skywalker: Right.
Yoda: Help you I can. Yes, mmm.
Luke Skywalker: I don't think so. I'm looking for a great warrior.
Yoda: Oh! Great warrior! [Laughs] Wars make not one great.

View Quote [Luke's X-wing sinks into the swamp]
Luke Skywalker: We'll never get it out now!
Yoda: So certain are you. Always with you it cannot be done. Hear you nothing that I say?
Luke Skywalker: Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different.
Yoda: No! No different! Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.
Luke Skywalker: Alright, I'll give it a try.
Yoda: No! Try not! Do, or do not. There is no try.
[Luke concentrates, and the X-wing begins to rise out of the swamp. A moment later, however, it sinks the rest of the way, with Yoda and R2-D2 both expressing their disappointment.]
Luke Skywalker: [tired] I can't. It's too big.
Yoda: Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you, hmm? And well you should not, for my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally it is. [looks around him] Life creates it. Makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you. Everywhere. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere. Yes, even between the land and the ship.
Luke Skywalker: You want the impossible. [starts to walk away]
[Yoda sighs, then concentrates on the ship. Using the Force, he raises it out of the swamp and places it safely on dry land, then looks back to Luke.]
Luke Skywalker: [astonished] I don't believe it!
Yoda: That is why you fail.

View Quote [The Millenium Falcon has evaded Vader's forces by flying into a tunnel within a large asteroid.]
Han Solo: I'm going to shut everything down but the emergency power systems.
C-3PO: Sir, I'm almost afraid to ask but, does that include shutting me down?
Han Solo: No, I need you to talk to the Falcon and find out what's wrong with the hyperdrive.
[The asteroid shakes.]
C-3PO: Sir, it's quite possible this asteroid is not entirely stable.
Han Solo: [annoyed] Not entirely stable? Well, I'm glad you're here to tell us these things! Chewie, take the professor into the back and plug him into the hyperdrive!
[The asteroid shakes again. Leia falls against Han, who begins holding her.]
Princess Leia Organa: [after a moment] Let go.
Han Solo: Shh!
Princess Leia Organa: Let go, please.
Han Solo: Don't get excited!
Princess Leia Organa: Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited.
Han Solo: [lets go] Sorry sweetheart. I haven't got time for anything else.

View Quote [Leia Organa: I love you.] I know.

View Quote [To R2] I'm sitting here in pieces and you're having delusions of grandeur!

View Quote [When Darth Vader and some Stormtroopers ambush Han, Leia, and Chewbacca in the dining room] I had no choice, they came right before you did. I'm sorry.

View Quote [When Luke asks if the Dark Side of the Force is stronger] No, no. Easier and more seductive; not more powerful.

View Quote A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware the Dark Side. Anger, fear, and aggression; the Dark Side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight.

View Quote All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was... what he was doing.

View Quote All troop carriers will assemble at the north entrance. The heavy transport ships will leave as soon as they're loaded. Only two fighter escorts per ship. The energy shield can only be opened for a short time, so you'll have to stay very close to your transports. [Derek Klivian: Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?] The ion cannon will fire several shots to make sure any enemy ships will be out of your flight path. When you've gotten past the energy shield, proceed directly to the rendezvous point. Understood? Good luck.

View Quote And I thought they smelled bad... on the outside!