Quotes from
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Obi-Wan Kenobi: You were banished because you were clumsy?
[After a pod racer crashes and explodes into a billion pieces.]
Beed: I don't care what universe you're from, that's got to hurt!
Governor Sio Bibble: A communications disruption could mean only one thing: invasion.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the future.
Qui-Gon Jinn: But not at the expense of the present.
Daultay Dofine: This game of yours has failed, Lord Sidious! The blockade is finished. We dare not go against the Jedi!
Darth Sidious: Viceroy, I don't want to see this stunted slime in my sight again.
Shmi Skywalker: Now, be brave, and don't look back.
Qui-Gon Jinn: I need to speak to the Jedi Council. The situation has become much more complicated.
Anakin: Are you an angel?
Padme: What?
Anakin: An angel. I've heard the deep space pilots talk about them. They live on the moons of Iego, I think. They're the most beautiful creatures in the universe.
Padme: You're a funny little boy. How do you know so much?
Anakin: I listen to all the traders and star pilots who come through here. I'm a pilot, you know, and someday I'm going to fly away from this place.
Amidala/Padme: You're a slave?
Anakin Skywalker: I'm a person and my name is Anakin.
Qui-Gon Jinn: Feel, don't think. Use your instincts.
Qui-Gon: Greed can be a very powerful ally.
Senator Palpatine: There is no civility, only politics.
Qui-Gon Jinn: The ablilty to speak does not make you intelligent.
Watto: How are you going to pay for all this?
Qui-Gon: I have twenty thousand Republic dataries.
Watto: Republic credits? Republic credits are no good out here. I need something more real.
Qui-Gon: I don't have have anything else [waves hand] but credits will do fine.
Watto: No, they won't-a.
[Qui-Gon waves his hand more firmly]
Qui-Gon: Credits will do fine.
Watto: No, they won't-a. What? You think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm a Toydarian, mind tricks don't work on me. Only money. No money, no parts, no deal!
[Regarding returning to Otoh Gunga.]
Jar Jar Binks: If me be returnin, the Bosses will do terrible things to me! Tewwwwible things!
Qui-Gon Jinn: Do you hear that?
[A rumbling is heard in the distance.]
Jar Jar Binks: Yeah.
Qui-Gon Jinn: That is the sound of a thousand terrible things headed this way.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: If they find us, they will crush us, grind us into TINY pieces and BLAST us into oblivion!
Jar Jar Binks: Hmmm... yousa point is well seen.
Shmi Skywalker: You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.
Obi-Wan: Don't defy the council, Master, not again.
Qui-Gon: I will do what I must, Obi-Wan.
Jar Jar Binks: Gungans have grand army. That's why you no liking us meesa thinks.
Obi-Wan: I have a bad feeling about this.
Qui-Gon: I don't sense anything.
Obi-Wan: It's not about the mission, Master. It's something... elsewhere. Elusive.
Queen Amidala: I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war.
Qui-Gon: These Federation types are cowards. The negotiations will be brief.
Darth Maul: At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge.
Yoda: Hard to see, the dark side is.
Yoda: Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.
Anakin Skywalker: I'm a person and my name is Anakin.
[Artoo beeps loudly.]
C-3PO: I beg your pardon. What do you mean, "naked"?
Darth Sidious: This turn of events is unfortunate. We must accelerate our plans, Viceroy. Begin landing your troops.
Nute Gunray: Ahhh, My Lord, is that... legal?
Darth Sidious: I will make it legal.
Darth Sidious: Wipe them out, all of them.
Anakin: You're a Jedi Knight, aren't you?
Qui-Gon: What makes you think that?
Anakin: I saw your laser sword. Only Jedi carry that kind of weapon.
Qui-Gon: Perhaps I killed a Jedi and took it from him.
Anakin: I don't think so. No one can kill a Jedi.
Qui-Gon: I wish that were so.
Shmi: There was no father. I carried him, I gave birth to him, I raised him. I can't explain what happened.
Jar Jar Binks: Monsters out there, leaking in here. Weesa all sinking and no power. Whena yousa thinking we are in trouble?
Jar Jar: Better dead here than deader in the Core. Ye gods, whatta meesa sayin'?
Anakin Skywalker: Will I ever see you again?
Shmi Skywalker: What does your heart tell you?
Qui-Gon Jinn: There's always a bigger fish.
Mace Windu: You refer to the prophecy of The One, who will bring balance to the Force. You believe it's this boy?
Queen Amidala: I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die while you discuss this invasion in a committee!
C-3PO: I can assure you they will never get me onto one of those dreadful starships!
Qui-Gon Jinn: I have... acquired a pod in a game of chance. The fastest ever built.
Watto: I hope you didn't kill anyone I know for it.
Watto: I want to see your spaceship the moment the race is over.
Qui-Gon Jinn: Patience, my blue friend.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: The council has granted me permission to train you. You will be a Jedi, I promise.
[About the Sith lords.]
Yoda: Always two there are. No more, no less. A master and an apprentice.
Chancellor Palpatine: And you, young Skywalker; we shall watch your career with great interest.
Darth Maul: At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge.
Darth Sidious: You have been well trained, my young apprentice. They will be no match for you.
Qui-Gon Jinn: Remember, concentrate on the moment. Feel, don't think. Trust your instincts.
Anakin Skywalker: I've built a racer. It's the fastest ever! There's a big race tomorrow on Boonta Eve. You could enter my pod. It's all but finished...
Shmi Skywalker: Anakin, Watto won't let you...
Anakin Skywalker: Watto, doesn't know I've built it. You could make him think it was yours and you could get him to let me pilot it for you.
Shmi Skywalker: I don't want you to race Anni, it's awful. I die everytime Watto makes you do it.
Anakin Skywalker: But mom, I love it. The prize money would more than pay for the parts they need.
Anakin Skywalker: Mom, you said that the biggest problem in the universe is no one helps each other.
Anakin Skywalker: But what about mom? Is she free too? You're coming too, aren't you mom?
Qui-Gon Jinn: I tried to free your mother Anni, but Watto wouldn't have it.
Shmi Skywalker: Son, my place is here, my future is here. It is time for you to let go.
Anakin Skywalker: I will come back and free you mom, I promise.
Qui-Gon Jinn: These Federation types are cowards. The negotiations will be short.
Qui-Gon Jinn: Remember: Your focus determines your reality.
Amidala: Our people are dying, Senator. We must do something quickly to stop the Federation.
Senator Palpatine: To be realistic, your Majesty, I think we are going to have to accept Federation control for the time being.
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