- Darth Vader: There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you.
- [pauses]
- Darth Vader: Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
- Luke: I'll never join you!
- Darth Vader: If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
- Luke: He told me enough! He told me *you* killed him!
- Darth Vader: No. *I* am your father.
- Luke: No. No. That's not true. That's impossible!
- Darth Vader: Search your feelings, you *know* it to be true!
- Luke: [anguished] No! No!
- Han Solo: [1:35:24] No! Stop, Chewie, stop! Chewie! Chewie this won't help me! Hey! Save your strength. There'll be another time. The Princess. You have to take care of her. You hear me? Huh?
- [Leia and Han share a passionate kiss before Han is dragged towards the freezing chamber by the imperials]
- Princess Leia: I love you.
- Han Solo: I know.
- Yoda: I am wondering, why are you here?
- Luke: I'm looking for someone.
- Yoda: Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say, hmmm?
- Luke: Right...
- Yoda: Help you I can. Yes, mmmm.
- Luke: I don't think so. I'm looking for a great warrior.
- Yoda: Ohhh. Great warrior.
- [laughs and shakes his head]
- Yoda: Wars not make one great.
- [Luke can't levitate his X-Wing out of the bog]
- Luke: I can't. It's too big.
- Yoda: Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.
- Princess Leia: [annoyed] Why, you stuck up... half-witted... scruffy-looking... Nerf-herder!
- Han Solo: [shocked] Who's scruffy-looking?
- Yoda: Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph! Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!
- Yoda: Yes, run! Yes, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.
- Luke: Vader... Is the dark side stronger?
- Yoda: No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
- Luke: But how am I to know the good side from the bad?
- Yoda: You will know... when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, NEVER for attack.
- Luke: But tell my why I can't...
- Yoda: No, no! There is no "why".
- Yoda: Why wish you become Jedi?
- Luke: Well, mostly because of my father, I guess.
- Yoda: Ahh... father. Powerful Jedi was he. Powerful Jedi.
- Luke: [suspicious] Oh, come on! How can you know my father? You don't even know who I am. Oh, I don't even know what I'm doing here! We're wasting our time!
- Yoda: [Looking away from Luke] I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience.
- Obi-Wan: [voice-over] He will learn patience.
- Yoda: Much anger in him... like his father.
- Obi-Wan: [voice] Was I any different when you taught me?
- Han Solo: Hey, Your Worship, I'm only trying to help.
- Princess Leia: Would you please stop calling me that?
- Han Solo: Sure, Leia.
- Princess Leia: You make it so difficult sometimes.
- Han Solo: I do, I really do. You could be a little nicer, though. Come on, admit it. Sometimes you think I'm all right.
- Princess Leia: Occasionally, maybe... when you aren't acting like a scoundrel.
- Han Solo: Scoundrel? Scoundrel... I like the sound of that.
- [Han starts to massage Leia's hand]
- Princess Leia: Stop that.
- Han Solo: Stop what?
- Princess Leia: [timidly] Stop that. My hands are dirty.
- Han Solo: My hands are dirty, too. What are you afraid of?
- Princess Leia: Afraid?
- Han Solo: You're trembling.
- Princess Leia: I'm not trembling.
- [Han moves in closer]
- Han Solo: You like me because I'm a scoundrel. There aren't enough scoundrels in your life.
- Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
- Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
- Princess Leia: No, you're not...
- [they kiss]
- Darth Vader: Calrissian. Take the princess and the Wookie to my ship.
- Lando: You said they'd be left at the city under my supervision!
- Darth Vader: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
- [Han has decided to go searching for Luke]
- Echo Base Officer: Your Tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker!
- Han Solo: Then I'll see you in Hell!
- Princess Leia: You're not actually going IN to an asteroid field?
- Han Solo: They'd be crazy to follow us, wouldn't they?
- Han Solo: You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could be it, sweetheart.
- Princess Leia: I take it back.
- Darth Vader: Luke, you can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.
- Han Solo: Afraid I was gonna leave without giving you a goodbye kiss?
- Princess Leia: I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee.
- Han Solo: I can arrange that. You could use a good kiss.
- [the Millennium Falcon, under siege, won't start]
- Princess Leia: [sarcastic] Would it help if I got out and pushed?
- Han Solo: [also sarcastic] It might!
- Han Solo: [cutting open his dead Tauntaun and shoving Luke inside] This may smell bad, kid, but it'll keep you warm until I get the shelter up... Ugh. And I thought they smelled bad on the *outside*.
- Boba Fett: What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me.
- Darth Vader: The Empire will compensate you, if he dies. Put him in.
- Han Solo: Well Princess, it looks like you managed to keep me here a while longer.
- Princess Leia: I had nothing to do with it. General Rieekan thinks it's dangerous for anyone to leave the system until they've activated the energy shield.
- Han Solo: That's a good story. I think you just can't bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight.
- Princess Leia: I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain.
- [Chewbacca laughs]
- Han Solo: Laugh it up, fuzzball.
- Leia: They're getting closer.
- Han Solo: Oh, yeah? Watch this.
- [he throws the hyperdrive lever, the engine sputters and dies]
- Leia: Watch what?
- Han Solo: I think we're in trouble.
- C-3PO: If I may say so, sir, I noticed earlier the hyperdrive motivator has been damaged. It's impossible to go to lightspeed!
- Han Solo: We're in trouble!
- C-3PO: Don't worry about Master Luke. I'm sure he'll be all right. He's quite clever, you know... for a human being.
- [first lines]
- Luke: Echo Three to Echo Seven. Han, old buddy, do you read me?
- Han Solo: Loud and clear, kid. What's up?
- Luke: Well, I finished my circle. I don't pick up any life readings.
- Han Solo: There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser. Sensors are placed. I'm going back.
- Luke: Right. I'll see you shortly. There's a meteorite that hit the ground near here. I want to check it out. It won't take long.
- [a tremor knocks Leia into Solo's arms]
- Princess Leia: Let go.
- Han Solo: Shh.
- Princess Leia: Let go, please.
- Han Solo: Don't get excited.
- Princess Leia: Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited.
- Han Solo: Sorry sweetheart. I haven't got time for anything else.
- Darth Vader: Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.
- Darth Vader: [having cornered Luke during their lightsaber battle] You are beaten. It is useless to resist. Don't let yourself be destroyed as Obi-Wan did.
- Princess Leia: Han, we need you.
- Han Solo: *We* need?
- Princess Leia: Yes.
- Han Solo: Well, what about *you* need?
- Princess Leia: I need? I don't know what you are talking about.
- Han Solo: You probably don't.
- Princess Leia: What precisely am I supposed to know?
- Han Solo: Come on. You want me to stay because of the way you feel about me.
- Princess Leia: Yes, you're great help to us. You're a natural leader.
- Han Solo: No! That's not it. Come on. Come on!
- Princess Leia: You're imagining things.
- Han Solo: Am I? Then why are you following me? Afraid I was gonna leave without giving you a goodbye kiss?
- Princess Leia: I'd just as soon kiss a wookiee.
- Han Solo: I can arrange that.
- [Han walks away]
- Han Solo: You could use a good kiss!
- [heading into a cave on a large asteroid]
- Princess Leia: I hope you know what you're doing.
- Han Solo: Yeah, me too.
- C-3PO: Oh. They've encased him in Carbonite. He should be quite well protected. If he survived the freezing process, that is.
- Darth Vader: Well, Calrissian, did he survive?
- Lando: Yes, he's alive, and in perfect hibernation.
- Darth Vader: He's all yours, bounty hunter. Reset the chamber for Skywalker.
- Darth Vader: [1:06:12] There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the Millennium Falcon. You are free to use any methods necessary, but I want them alive. No disintegrations.
- Boba Fett: As you wish.
- Darth Vader: Yes, Admiral?
- Admiral Piett: Our ships have sighted the Millennium Falcon, my Lord. But it has entered an asteroid field and we cannot risk...
- Darth Vader: [interrupting] Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral! I want that ship, not excuses!
- Admiral Piett: Yes, my Lord.
- Princess Leia: [to Han] Well, I guess you don't know everything about women yet.
- [Leia gives Luke a kiss in front of Han]
- Echo Base Officer: Echo station 3-T-8, we have spotted Imperial walkers.