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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.


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


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


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


I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.


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


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


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


Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.


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


After a while, the character sort of took over.


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


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.