Mark Hamill

“I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be.”

“A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.”

“When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.”

“I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.”

“So much of life is what you roll and where you land.”

“Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.”

“I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.”

“Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.”

“I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader.”

“I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what's acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.”

“When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.”

“I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.”

“I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.”

“I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and it was a mask where you cut out the eye holes and put a string through the side. It makes me feel like I'm 11 years old all over again.”

“Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.”

“'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.”

“One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera.”

“You know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that.”

“I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do have a lot more fun, and there's a versatility involved that's challenging and fun, to come up to speed and do what's required of you.”

“I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.”