“Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace” quotes

(1999)
Movie Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
George Lucas directed this movie in 1999
Title Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Year 1999
Director George Lucas
Genre Adventure, Fantasy, Action
Plot – Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi visit the Trade Federation, trying to reduce unfair taxes. They are attacked, but they manage to escape to an underwater city. Meanwhile Princess Padme Amidala is imprisoned as well but the two knights rescue her. Their spacecraft unfortunately falls on planet Tatooine, where they meet little Anakin, a gifted child they want to train as a Jedi. The group goes to Khorus but the Republic is near to the war against the Federation and then wins it. Qui-Gon Jinn dies, Obi is knighted and Anakin becomes his apprentice.
All actors – Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid, Pernilla August, Oliver Ford Davies, Hugh Quarshie, Ahmed Best, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Frank Oz, Terence Stamp, Brian Blessed, Andy Secombe, Ray Park, Lewis Macleod, Warwick Davis, Steve Speirs, Silas Carson, Jerome St. John Blake, Alan Ruscoe, Ralph Brown, Celia Imrie, Benedict Taylor, Clarence Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, Dominic West, Karol Cristina da Silva, Liz Wilson, Candice Orwell, Sofia Coppola, Keira Knightley, Bronagh Gallagher, John Fensom, Greg Proops, Scott Capurro, Margaret Towner, Dhruv Chanchani, Oliver Walpole, Katie Lucas, Megan Udall, Hassani Shapi, Gin Clarke, Khan Bonfils, Michelle Taylor, Michaela Cottrell, Dipika O'Neill Joti, Phil Eason, Mark Coulier, Lindsay Duncan, Peter Serafinowicz, James Taylor, Chris Sanders, Toby Longworth, Marc Silk, Amanda Lucas, , Simon Allen, Richard Armitage, Paul Bannon, Don Bies, Trisha Biggar, Michonne Bourriague, Ben Burtt, Doug Chiang, Rob Coleman, Roman Coppola, Sean Cronin, Zsuzsanna Cseh, Matt Daniel-Baker, Russell Darling, Philip Delancy, C. Michael Easton, Andrew Elias, John Ellis, Catherine Ernster, Patrice Girod, Ned Gorman, Joss Gower, Raymond Griffiths, Nathan Hamill, Tim Harrington, Sally Hawkins, Jack Haye, Nifa Hindes, Nishan Hindes, Alexi Kaye Campbell, David Knight, John Knoll, Kamay Lau, Andrew Lawden, Dan Madsen, Iain McCaig, Rick McCallum, João Costa Menezes, Taylor Murphy, Jeff Olson, Lorne Peterson, Neil Riddaway, Steve Sansweet, Mike Savva, Christopher Scarabosio, Jeff Shay, Christian Simpson, Paul Martin Smith, Scott Squires, Tom Sylla, Bill Tlusty, Danny Wagner, Matthew Wood
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  • “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate to suffering.”
     
  • “Do or do not; there is no try.”
    Frank Oz
     
  • “- Anakin Skywalker: An angel. I've heard the deep space pilots talk about them. They live on the moons of Lego, 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 Skywalker: I listen to all the traders and star pilots who come through here. I'm a pilot, you...” (continue)
    (continue reading)
    Jake Lloyd - Anakin Skywalker
    Natalie Portman - Queen Amidala
  • “- 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.”

    Liam Neeson - Qui-Gon Jinn
    Andy Secombe - Watto
    [Tag:killing, winning]
  • “- 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.”

    Natalie Portman - Padmé
    Liam Neeson - Qui-Gon Jinn
    [Tag:fate]
  • “- 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.”

    Liam Neeson - Qui-Gon Jinn
    Ahmed Best - Jar Jar Binks
  • “- Obi-Wan Kenobi: Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the future.
    - Qui-Gon Jinn: But not at the expense of the moment.”

    Ewan McGregor - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi
    Liam Neeson - Qui-Gon Jinn
    [Tag:future, present]
  • “You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.”
    Pernilla August - Shmi Skywalker
    [Tag:changing]
  • Mom, you said that the biggest problem in the universe is no one helps each other.”
    Jake Lloyd - Anakin Skywalker
  • “- Qui-Gon Jinn: 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 idenity of...” (continue)
    (continue reading)

    Liam Neeson - Qui-Gon Jinn
    Silas Carson - Ki-Adi-Mundi
    Samuel L. Jackson - Mace Windu
    Frank Oz - Yoda
    [Tag:evil, fighting]
  • “- Anakin Skywalker: You're a Jedi Knight, aren't you?
    - Qui-Gon Jinn: What makes you think that?
    - Anakin Skywalker: 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 Skywalker: I don't think so. No one can kill a Jedi.
    - Qui-Gon Jinn: I wish that were so.”

    Jake Lloyd - Anakin Skywalker
    Liam Neeson - Qui-Gon Jinn
    [Tag:killing, weapons]
  • “- Shmi Skywalker: All slaves have a transmitter placed somewhere in their body.
    - Anakin Skywalker: I've been working on a scanner to try and locate mine.
    - Shmi Skywalker: Any attempt to escape...
    - Anakin Skywalker: And they blow you up! Boom!”

    Pernilla August - Shmi Skywalker
    Jake Lloyd - Anakin Skywalker
  • “I don't care what universe you're from, that's got to hurt.”

    Scott Capurro - Beed (voice)
    [Tag:explosion, pain]
  • “- Ki-Adi-Mundi: Your thoughts dwell on your mother.
    - Anakin Skywalker: I miss her.
    - Yoda: Afraid to lose her I think, hmm?
    - Anakin Skywalker: 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.”

    Silas Carson - Ki-Adi-Mundi
    Jake Lloyd - Anakin Skywalker
    Frank Oz - Yoda
    [Tag:fear, mother]
  • “- Anakin Skywalker: 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.”

    Jake Lloyd - Anakin Skywalker
    Natalie Portman - Queen Amidala
    [Tag:farewell, mother]
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