Quotes from Anthony Daniels

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

They can see the character, standing before them. The voice became iconic in its own right. Parents often ask me to do it for their children, who don't quite believe them. After all, any old man can claim to be the guy inside the gold suit and kids are rightly skeptical. 'Hello, I am See-Threepio, human-cyborg relations.' Then I see the magic. I watch as the sound enters their ears, it reaches their brain, it gets processed in moments. And suddenly. Smiles of recognition - and love.

George and I talked. An hour passed. Surely we both had things to do. There was a silence. Nervously. 'Please, may I play the part?' George paused. Then quietly, 'Shurr.' Not even a word. Hardly a syllable. A sound. A small sound above the London traffic. It changed my life.

narrated a finely honed script that spoke of the key moments in our beloved tale. This was Star Wars – In Concert.

A country that was able to suppress religion entirely and executed dissenters on the merest suspicion was unable to get welders to wear goggles. At

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

If the Albanian Museum of Atheism followed its Soviet prototype, the exhibits would have traced the ascent of Man from amoebae to Enver Hoxha. We

Apart from the massacres, deaths and famines for which communism was responsible, the worst thing about the system was the official lying: that is to say the lying in which everyone was forced to take part, by repetition, assent or failure to contradict. I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda in communist countries was not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate and emasculate.

I prefer my saints to live in caves and not to try to impose their standards on the world: for single-mindedness is a cold virtue.

It is countries with no dissent, which live in the quiet of the grave, that are vulnerable and fragile.

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.