40 Quotes by Peter Mayhew

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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