Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Quotes

[after a pod racer crashes and explodes into a billion pieces]

Beed: I don't care what universe you're from, that's gotta hurt!

Obi-Wan: But Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the future.

Qui-Gon Jinn: But not at the expense of the moment.

Daultay Dofine: This scheme of yours has failed, Lord Sidious. The blockade is finished. We dare not go against the Jedi.

Senator Palpatine: Viceroy, I don't want this stunted slime in my sight again!

[Anakin is about to leave his mother behind to train as a Jedi]

Anakin: I can't do it, Mom. I just can't do it.

Shmi Skywalker: Ani...

Anakin: Will I ever see you again?

Shmi Skywalker: What does your heart tell you?

Anakin: I hope so. Yes... I guess.

Shmi Skywalker: Then we will see each other again.

Anakin: I will come back and free you, Mom. I promise.

Shmi Skywalker: Now, be brave, and don't look back. Don't look back.

Anakin: Are you an angel?

Queen Amidala: 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.

Queen Amidala: 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.

Queen Amidala: You're a slave?

Anakin: I'm a person and my name is Anakin.

Jar-Jar Binks: Ooh, mooey mooey, I love you!

Qui-Gon Jinn: You almost got us killed! Are you brainless?

Jar-Jar Binks: I spake!

Qui-Gon Jinn: The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. Now get out of here.

Jar Jar Binks: [regarding returning to Otoh Gunga] My forgotten, da Bosses will do terrible tings to me, terrrrrible is me going back der!

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: 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.

Obi-Wan: Do not defy the council, Master, not again.

Qui-Gon Jinn: I shall do what I must, Obi-Wan.

Obi-Wan: I have a bad feeling about this.

Qui-Gon Jinn: I don't sense anything.

Obi-Wan: It's not about the mission, Master. It's something... elsewhere. Elusive.

Darth Maul: Tatooine is sparsely populated. If the trace was correct, I will find them quickly, Master.

Senator Palpatine: Move against the Jedi first. You will then have no difficulty in taking the Queen to Naboo to sign the treaty.

Darth Maul: At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge.

Senator Palpatine: You have been well trained, my young apprentice. They will be no match for you.

Qui-Gon Jinn: [describing his encounter with Darth Maul] He had all the lightsaber fighting capabilities and the moves of the Jedi, only faster and more agressive. My only conclusion... is that it was a Sith lord.

Ki-Adi-Mundi: Impossible! The Sith are extinct! They have been for nearly a millenium.

Mace Windu: I agree. The Sith would not have returned without us sensing it.

Yoda: Hard to see, the dark side is. We must investigate further before drawing a conclusion to the identity of your adversary.

Yoda: How feel you?

Anakin: Cold, sir.

Yoda: Afraid are you?

Anakin: No, sir.

Yoda: See through you we can.

Mace Windu: Be mindful of your feelings.

Ki-Adi-Mundi: Your thoughts dwell on your mother.

Anakin: I miss her.

Yoda: Afraid to lose her I think, hmm?

Anakin: What has that got to do with anything?

Yoda: Everything! 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.

[R2D2 beeps]

C-3PO: I beg your pardon, but what do you mean, "naked?"

[R2D2 beeps]

C-3PO: My parts are showing? Oh, my goodness, oh!

Senator Palpatine: This turn of events is unfortunate. We must accelerate our plans. Begin landing your troops.

Nute Gunray: My lord, is that... legal?

Senator Palpatine: I will make it legal.

Nute Gunray: And the Jedi?

Senator Palpatine: The Chancellor should never have brought them into this. Kill them immediately!

Anakin: You're a Jedi Knight, aren't you?

Qui-Gon Jinn: What makes you think that?

Anakin: I saw your laser sword. Only Jedi carry that kind of weapon.

Qui-Gon Jinn: Perhaps I killed a Jedi and took it from him.

Anakin: I don't think so. No one can kill a Jedi.

Qui-Gon Jinn: I wish that were so.

Yoda: Master Qui-Gon. More to say have you?

Qui-Gon Jinn: With your permission, my master, I have encountered a vergence in the Force.

Yoda: A vergence, you say?

Mace Windu: Located around a person?

Qui-Gon Jinn: A boy. His cells have the highest concentration of midi-chlorians I have seen in a life-form. It was possible he was concieved by the midi-chlorians.

Mace Windu: You refer to the prophecy of The One who will bring balance to the Force. You believe it's this boy?

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.

Anakin: 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: Watto doesn't know I've built it.

[to Qui-Gon Jinn]

Anakin: 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 every time Watto makes you do it.

Anakin: But, mom, I love it. The prize money would more than pay for the parts they need.

Anakin: 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.

Queen 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.

Queen Amidala: That is something I cannot do.

Yoda: Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.

Mace Windu: But which was destroyed, the master or the apprentice?

Sebulba: You won't walk away from this one, you slave scum!

Anakin: Don't count on it, slimeball!

Sebulba: You're Bantha fodder!

Queen Amidala: How did you end up here with us?

Jar Jar Binks: I don't know. Mesa day startin pretty okee-day with a brisky morning munchy, then BOOM! Gettin very scared and grabbin that Jedi and POW! Mesa here! Mesa gettin' very very scared!

Shmi Skywalker: All slaves have a transmitter placed somewhere in their body.

Anakin: I've been working on a scanner to try and locate mine.

Shmi Skywalker: Any attempt to escape...

Anakin: And they blow you up! BOOM!

Jar Jar Binks: How wude!

Senator Palpatine: And Queen Amidala, has she signed the treaty?

Nute Gunray: She has... disappeared, my lord. One Naboo cruiser got past the blockade.

Senator Palpatine: I want that treaty signed!

Nute Gunray: M-my lord, it-it's impossible to locate the ship. It's out of our range.

Senator Palpatine: Not for a Sith.

[Darth Maul appears alongside Darth Sideous in the hologram]

Senator Palpatine: This is my apprentice, Darth Maul. He will find your lost ship.

[the hologram disappears]

Nute Gunray: This is getting out of hand! Now, there are two of them!

[laser fire surrounds Naboo Starfighter. R2D2 beeps]

Anakin: I know we're in trouble, just hang on!

[after a meeting with Darth Sidious]

Rune Haako: You didn't tell him about the missing Jedi.

Nute Gunray: No need to report that to him until we have something to report!

Captain Tarpals: Hey, you-sa! Stop-pa dere!

Jar-Jar Binks: Hey yo, Daddy, Captain Tarpals. Mesa back.

Captain Tarpals: No-ah 'gain, Jar Jar. You-sa goin' to da Bosses. You-sa in big doo-doo dis time!

[Jar Jar gets shocked by a Gungan spear]

Jar-Jar Binks: Yipe! How wude!

Shmi Skywalker: Can you help him?

Qui-Gon Jinn: I don't know. I didn't actually come here to free slaves.

Qui-Gon Jinn: You must have Jedi reflexes if you race pods.

[Jar-Jar tries to grab a piece of fruit with his tongue, but Qui-Gon catches it]

Qui-Gon Jinn: Don't do that again.

[first lines]

Qui-Gon Jinn: Captain.

Republic Cruiser Captain: Yes, sir?

Qui-Gon Jinn: Tell them we wish to board at once.

Republic Cruiser Captain: [to communication device] With all due respect, the ambassadors for the Supreme Chancellor wish to board immediately.

Nute Gunray: [on view screen] Yes, of course. As you know, our blockade is perfectly legal and we'd be happy to receive the ambassadors.

[last lines]

Boss Nass: Peace!

Jar-Jar Binks: Ya-hoo!

C-3PO: Hello, I am C-3PO, human cyborg relations. How might I serve you?

Padmé: He's perfect.

C-3PO: Oh. "Perfect."

[first title cards]

Title card/crawl:: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

Title card/crawl:: Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict...

Padmé: Are you sure about this? Trusting our fate to a boy we hardly know? The Queen will not approve.

Qui-Gon Jinn: The Queen does not need to know.

Padmé: Well, I don't approve.

Qui-Gon Jinn: Your Highness, under the circumstances, I suggest you come to Coruscant with us.

Queen Amidala: Thank you, Ambassador. But my place is with my people.

Qui-Gon Jinn: They will kill you if you stay.

Governor Sio Bibble: They wouldn't dare.

Captain Panaka: They need her to sign a treaty to make this invasion of theirs legal. They can't afford to kill her.

Queen Amidala: Senator, this is your arena. I feel I must return to my mine. I have decided to go back to Naboo.

Senator Palpatine: Go back? But, your Majesty, be realistic. They'll force you to sign the treaty.

Queen Amidala: I will sign no treaty, Senator. My fate will be no different to that of our people.

Qui-Gon Jinn: [mumbles, as Obi-Wan sits him up after battle with Darth Maul] Uhh, it's too late, it...

Obi-Wan: No!

Qui-Gon Jinn: Obi-Wan, promise... Promise me you will train the boy.

Obi-Wan: Yes, master.

Qui-Gon Jinn: [wiping a tear from Obi-Wan's right cheek] He is the chosen one. He will bring balance. Train him.

Obi-Wan: [nods, cries over Qui-Gon Jinn's body]

Queen Amidala: Although we do not always agree, Your Honor, our two great societies have always lived in peace. The Trade Federation has destroyed all that we have worked so hard to build. If we do not act quickly, all will be lost forever. I ask you to help us... no, I beg you to help us.

[Amidala drops to her knees in front of the Gungan assembly]

Queen Amidala: We are your humble servants.

[One by one, everyone in Amidala's party gets on one knee in front of the Gungan assembly]

Queen Amidala: Our fate is in your hands.

Boss Nass: Hmmmmm.

[rubs his chin in thought]

Qui-Gon Jinn: I don't presume...

Yoda: But you do! Revealed, your opinion is.

Jar Jar Binks: Where wesa goin?

Qui-Gon Jinn: Don't worry. The Force will guide us.

Jar Jar Binks: Ohh, maxi big da Force. Well, dat smells stinkowiff.

Watto: How's-a you gonna pay for all this, eh?

Qui-Gon Jinn: I have twenty thousand Republic dataries.

Watto: Republic credits? Republic credits are no good out here, I need something more real.

Qui-Gon Jinn: I don't have anything else...

[waves hand]

Qui-Gon Jinn: But credits will do fine.

Watto: No, they won't-a.

Qui-Gon Jinn: [waves his hand more firmly] 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-a work on-a me. Only money. No money, no parts, no deal!

Qui-Gon Jinn: Let's get out of here before more droids show up.

Jar-Jar Binks: More? More, did you spake?

Jar-Jar Binks: Dis is nutsen!

[looks out window]

Jar-Jar Binks: Oh, Gooberfish!

Obi-Wan: Why were you banished, Jar-Jar?

Jar-Jar Binks: It's a longo taleo buta small part of it would be mesa... clumsy.

Obi-Wan: You were banished because you were clumsy?

Jar-Jar Binks: Yousa might'n be sayin dat.

[Fode and Beed, the two-headed announcer, is calling the podrace]

Fode: [in Huttese, subtitled] We have perfect weather today for the Boonta Classic. The most hazardous of all Podraces.

Beed: [in English] That's absolutely right. And a big turnout here, from all corners of the Outer Rim territories. I see the contestants are making their way out onto the starting grid.

Fode: Yes, there they are!

Beed: I see Ben Quadinaros from the Tund system.

Fode: And Gasgano in the new Ord Pedrovia.

Beed: Two time winner, Boles Roor...

Fode: On the front line, the reigning champion, Sebulba from Pixelito. By far the favorite today.

Beed: And a late entry, Anakin Skywalker, a local boy.

Fode: I hope he has better luck this time.

Beed: I see the flaggers are moving onto the track.

Anakin: What are midi-chlorians?

Qui-Gon Jinn: Midi-chlorians are a microscopic life form that resides within all living cells.

[repeated line]

Jar-Jar Binks: How wude!

Qui-Gon Jinn: He owes me what you call a Life Debt.

Boss Nass: Binks? Yousa been havin' the life play with thissen hissen?

Jar-Jar Binks: Uh-huh.

Boss Nass: Blurublurublu! Be gone with him!

Jar-Jar Binks: Count me outa this one. Better dead here than dead at the core. Ye Gods! What is mesa sayin'?

Anakin: I don't know if I'll ever see her again, I wanted to say goodbye.

Queen Amidala: We will tell her for you. We are sure her heart goes with you.

Jar-Jar Binks: No again! No again! The beings hereabouts are kwazy! We shall be robbed and crunched!

Qui-Gon Jinn: Not likely, we have nothing of value. That's our problem.

[Obi-Wan's submarine is propelling through an underwater cave, when it suddenly loses power]

Jar-Jar Binks: [whimpers] Wesa gonna *die* in here!

[cover his face as he continues to whimper fearfully]

Qui-Gon Jinn: [calmly] Relax, we're not in trouble yet.

Jar-Jar Binks: [peeks through one hand and then throws his hands up; frustrated] What Ne-yet?

[Obi-Wan opens the controls wire board and begins fixing the wires]

Jar-Jar Binks: Monsters out there, sinking in here... All stuck here wi' no power. When do you-sa thinkin' weesa in trouble?

Obi-Wan: [Obi-Wan hot wires; power comes back on] Power's back.

Jar-Jar Binks: [Obi-Wan and Jar Jar turn to the front to see a viper fish-like sea monster. Jar Jar freaks out] Aaaaugh! Monster-sa!

[During the Battle on Naboo, Jar Jar scampers up a Gungan war wagon only to find it full of explosive Boomba balls]

Jar Jar Binks: Uh, oh. Big problem...

[the wagon's back door gives way and Jar Jar collapses on the ground, accidentally releasing the Boomba balls. Jar Jar runs away from the oncoming balls as they bounce and roll toward the destroyer droids, damaging two droid tanks in the process]

[In Gungan City, Qui-Gon decides to use Jar-Jar as a navigator for their voyage to the planet's core]

Qui-Gon Jinn: [to Boss Nass] What is to become of Jar-Jar Binks here?

Boss Nass: [importantly] He-sa sentenced to be... *pew-nished*.

[Boss Nass smiles darkly at Jar Jar. Jar Jar bows his head piteously. Obi-Wan looks at Jar Jar, his face full of pity]

Qui-Gon Jinn: I saved his life. He owes me what you might call a life debt. Your Gods demand that his life should be placed in my hands now.

Boss Nass: [drawing out the "s"] Binks? Yousa had your life played with this-a hue-sun?

Jar-Jar Binks: [cute-faced, meekly] Uh huh.

Boss Nass: [shaking his head vigoriously, then to Qui-Gon] Bwa-gur-a-glur-a-glur! Begone wi' him!

Queen Amidala: Jar Jar Binks?

Jar Jar Binks: Mesa, your Highness?

Queen Amidala: Yes. I need your help.

TC-14: [to Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan] I'm TC-14 at your service. This way, please.

[ushering Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to a waiting area]

TC-14: We are greatly honored by your visit, ambassadors. Make yourselves comfortable; my master will be with you shortly.

Yoda: Confer on you, the level of Jedi Knight the Council does. But agree on you taking this boy as your Padawan learner, I do not.

Obi-Wan: Qui-Gon believed in him.

Yoda: The Chosen One the boy may be; nevertheless, grave danger I fear in his training.

Obi-Wan: Master Yoda, I gave Qui-Gon my word. I will train Anakin. Without the approval of the Council if I must.

Yoda: Qui-Gon's defiance I sense in you. Need that, you do not. Agree with you, the council does. Your apprentice, Skywalker will be.

Obi-Wan: [seeing the repair droids being destroyed] We're losing droids fast.

Captain Panaka: If we can't get the shield generator fixed, we'll be sitting ducks.

[the next-to-last droid is destroyed, leaving only R2]

Ric Olié: The shields are gone.

[R2 works feverishly to repair the circuits. In the cockpit, the control panel lights up]

Ric Olié: The power's back. That little droid did it! He bypassed the main power drive. Defector shields up at maximum!

[after R2 saves the ship, Captain Panaka brings him before Sabe who is posing as the queen]

Captain Panaka: An extremely well-put together little droid, Your Highness. Without a doubt, it saved the ship, as well as our lives.

Sabé: It is to be commended. What is its number?

[Panaka brushes dirt off R2 to read his number]

Captain Panaka: R2-D2, Your Highness.

Sabé: Thank you, R2-D2.

[R2 beeps in gratitude]

Sabé: Padme!

[Padme steps forward]

Sabé: Clean this droid up as best you can. It deserves our gratitude.

[Anakin flips a switch and the engines roar to life; Anakin yells]

Anakin Skywalker: It's working, it's working!

Ric Olié: There's not enough power to get us to Coruscant. The hyperdrive is leaking.

Qui-Gon Jinn: We'll have to land somewhere to refuel and repair the ship.

Obi-Wan: [searching the databank] Here, Master. Tatooine. It's small, out of the way, poor. The Trade Federation have no presence there.

Captain Panaka: How can you be sure?

Qui-Gon Jinn: It's controlled by the Hutts.

Captain Panaka: You can't take Her Royal Highness there. The Hutts are gangsters. If they discovered her...

Qui-Gon Jinn: It would be no different than if we landed on a system controlled by the Federation. Except that the Hutts aren't looking for her, which gives us the advantage.

Qui-Gon Jinn: [entering Mos Espa] Moisture farms, for the most part. Some indigenous tribes and scavengers. The few spaceports like this one are havens for those that don't wish to be found.

Padmé: Like us.

Captain Panaka: Her Highness commands you to take her handmaiden with you.

Qui-Gon Jinn: No more commands from Her Highness today, Captain. The spaceport is not going to be pleasant.

Captain Panaka: The queen wishes it. She's curious about the planet.

Qui-Gon Jinn: This is not a good idea.

[to Padme]

Qui-Gon Jinn: Stay close to me.

Obi-Wan: The hyperdrive generator's gone, Master. We'll need a new one.

Qui-Gon Jinn: That'll complicate things. Be wary. I sense a disturbance in the Force.

Obi-Wan: I feel it also, Master.

Qui-Gon Jinn: Don't let them send any transmissions.

Anakin: I had a dream I was a Jedi. I came back here and freed all the slaves. Have you come to free us?

Qui-Gon Jinn: No, I'm afraid not.

Anakin: I think you have. Why else would you be here?

Qui-Gon Jinn: I can see there's no fooling you, Anakin. We're on our way to Coruscant, the central system in the Republic, on a very important mission.

Anakin: How did you end up out here in the Outer Rim?

Padmé: Our ship was damaged, and we're stranded here until we can repair it.

Anakin: I can help. I can fix anything.

Qui-Gon Jinn: I believe you can. But first we must acquire the parts we need.

Jar-Jar Binks: With no-nutten mula to trade.

Padmé: These junk dealers must have a weakness of some kind.

Shmi Skywalker: Gambling. Everything here revolves around betting on those awful races.

Watto: The boy tells me you want to sponsor him in the race. How can you do this? Not on Republic credits, I think, huh?

Qui-Gon Jinn: [turning on a hand-held hologram] My ship will be the entry fee.

Watto: Oh, not bad! Not bad, huh? A Nubian, huh?

Qui-Gon Jinn: It's in good order, except for the parts I need.

Watto: What would the boy ride? He smashed up my pod in last race. It will take some long time to fix it, huh?

Anakin: It wasn't my fault, really. Sebulba flashed me with his vents. I actually saved the pod, mostly.

Watto: Mmm. That you did, huh? The boy's good. No doubts there, huh?

Watto: So, you supply the pod and the entry fee, I supply the boy. We split the winnings, um, 50/50, I think, huh?

Qui-Gon Jinn: If it's going to be 50/50, I suggest you front the cash for the entry. If we win, you keep all the winnings, minus the cost of the parts I need. And if we lose, you keep my ship. Either way, you win.

Watto: [thinking it over] Deal!

[to Anakin in Huttese, as Qui-Gon leaves]

Watto: Your friend is a foolish one, methinks.

Obi-Wan: What if this plan fails, Master? We could be stuck here a very long time.

Qui-Gon Jinn: Well, it's too dangerous to call for help, and a ship without a power supply isn't going to get us anywhere. And... there's something about this boy.

Watto: I am betting heavily on Sebulba.

Qui-Gon Jinn: I'll take that bet.

Watto: You what?

Qui-Gon Jinn: I'll wager my new racing pod against, say... the boy and his mother.

Watto: No pod is worth two slaves, not by a long shot.

Qui-Gon Jinn: The boy, then.

Watto: Hmm. Well... we'll let fate decide, hmm?

[taking a colored die out of his satchel]

Watto: I just happen to have a chance cube here. Blue, it's the boy. Red... his mother.

[he throws it, and Qui-Gon subtly uses the Force to manipulate it blue-face up]

Watto: You won this small toss, outlander, but you won't win the race! So it makes little difference!

Qui-Gon Jinn: We're ambassadors for the Supreme Chancellor.

Governor Sio Bibble: Your negotiations seem to have failed, Ambassador.

Qui-Gon Jinn: The negotiations never took place. It's urgent that we make contact with the Republic.

Captain Panaka: They've knocked out all our communications.

Qui-Gon Jinn: Do you have transports?

Captain Panaka: In the main hangar. This way.

Qui-Gon Jinn: And you're sure there's nothing left on board?

Obi-Wan: A few containers of supplies. The queen's wardrobe, maybe, but not enough for you to barter with. Not in the amounts you're talking about.

Qui-Gon Jinn: All right. I'm sure another solution will present itself. I'll check back later.

Anakin: [showing C-3PO to Padme] Isn't he great? He's not finished yet.

Padmé: He's wonderful.

Anakin: You really like him? He's a protocol droid to help Mom. Watch.

C-3PO: [being switched on, with just one photoreceptor affixed] Oh. Oh. Where is everybody?

Qui-Gon Jinn: [learning of a transmission from Naboo] It sounds like bait to establish a connection trace.

Obi-Wan: What if it is true, and the people are dying?

Qui-Gon Jinn: Either way, we're running out of time.

Jar Jar Binks: Oh, dis'n gonna be messy.

[covering his eyes]

Jar Jar Binks: Me no watchin'!

Anakin: Symbionts?

Qui-Gon Jinn: Life-forms living together for mutual advantage. Without the midi-chlorians, life could not exist and we would have no knowledge of the Force. They continually speak to us, telling us the will of the Force. When you learn to quiet your mind, you'll hear them speaking to you.

Jar-Jar Binks: Gungans get pasted too, eh?

Queen Amidala: I hope not.