I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale.

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.

Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.