Mark Hamill

“I'm 73 years old. I mean, it's impossible not to think about your mortality. And I never expected when I was younger to be working at this age. It just seems to me, you know, there'll come a time where I should be spending more time, you kn...” “I'm 73 years old. I mean, it's impossible not to think about your mortality. And I never expected when I was younger to be working at this age. It just seems to me, you know, there'll come a time where I should be spending more time, you know, confiscating kids' Frisbees that come over the fence or wandering the beach with a metal detector. I have a really happy home life. I love my wife. I love my puppies. My three children live within distance so they can visit whenever they want. So you know? And I sort of lost the ambition. I didn't have the drive that I once had. And Mike Flanagan changed all that because he was the first one a role like Arthur Gordon Pym in follow the house of Usher would be routine in voice over.”

Mark Hamill

“even though you do think about life and end of the world and all that sort of thing, it's so optimistic, and it's so positive. And I love the fact that it's not hitting you over the head with a message. They're telling this story, and you g...” “even though you do think about life and end of the world and all that sort of thing, it's so optimistic, and it's so positive. And I love the fact that it's not hitting you over the head with a message. They're telling this story, and you glean what you want from it. And you come out feeling so much better about yourself, about the world, about the inherent goodness in people. And I think timing wise, it couldn't come at a better time when we're in a nation that's so divided and there's uncertainty and acrimony, and it's a dark, dark time in our history. And I think this film is positively therapeutic.”

Mark Hamill

“I watched the Walt Disney show. One thing that really struck me, and this is I didn't I wasn't even in first grade. This distinguished gentleman with white hair by the name of Clarence Nash steps up to the microphone and does Donald Duck. I...” “I watched the Walt Disney show. One thing that really struck me, and this is I didn't I wasn't even in first grade. This distinguished gentleman with white hair by the name of Clarence Nash steps up to the microphone and does Donald Duck. I I it just blew me away. I thought, wow. This guy goes to work, and he does Donald Duck. My father was in the Navy, and I thought, I want that job. I did a terrible Donald Duck, but it made me think that's what I wanna do. I wanna do cartoon voices. And I couldn't tell anyone. I was in the middle of seven children, and I knew I would be subject to ridicule if I told them what I really wanna do.”

Mark Hamill

“I didn't think, like, I had to be in the movie. I wanted to be near the movie. That's the same way in school when I started auditioning for plays and so forth. If I didn't get a part, fine. I'd work props. I'd be in the lighting booth. I wo...” “I didn't think, like, I had to be in the movie. I wanted to be near the movie. That's the same way in school when I started auditioning for plays and so forth. If I didn't get a part, fine. I'd work props. I'd be in the lighting booth. I would be an usher. I would do promotional posters. I wanted to be near the show, if not in the show. It was my life. By the time I was really in junior high and high school and doing plays, I looked at you know, from nine to three was just something you had to get through to get to the main reason you were there, rehearsal.”

Mark Hamill

“I thought when you do something well in Hollywood, they want you to do that over and over and over again. So I was getting sort of bland, waspy, uninteresting roles, and so I went to Broadway.”

Mark Hamill

“I thought this isn't science fiction. This is a fairy tale. It's got a princess. It's got a wizard. It's got a space pirate. It's clearly not traditional science fiction in any way, shape, or form. And it's funny. Oh my god. Robots arguing...” “I thought this isn't science fiction. This is a fairy tale. It's got a princess. It's got a wizard. It's got a space pirate. It's clearly not traditional science fiction in any way, shape, or form. And it's funny. Oh my god. Robots arguing over whose fault it is? I mean and effortless feminism. The fact that the princess is totally unintimidated by Vader. You know, she's spitting right in his face. And then when she takes over her own rescue, she makes Han and Luke look like chumps.”

Mark Hamill

“I took her out to dinner so we could get to know each other. I mean, Guinness had done that for me, and I thought it was a great idea. You don't wanna meet on the first day of shooting. Anyway, I I would take her out to dinner, and I just c...” “I took her out to dinner so we could get to know each other. I mean, Guinness had done that for me, and I thought it was a great idea. You don't wanna meet on the first day of shooting. Anyway, I I would take her out to dinner, and I just could not believe how facile a wit she had and so cynical. She started telling me details about her mother, Debbie Reynolds, and her father, Eddie Fisher, you know, his addiction to this prescription pill, all this stuff where you're going, should I be hearing this? She was talking to me like she knew me for thirty years, not something you would reveal on the very first meeting like that, but she was one of a kind.”

Mark Hamill

“I complained to George because I thought the way things were going, where I had the black glove over the hand that I lost, that the third one was going to be about Luke struggling to decide whether to go to the dark side or not. So I was st...” “I complained to George because I thought the way things were going, where I had the black glove over the hand that I lost, that the third one was going to be about Luke struggling to decide whether to go to the dark side or not. So I was still in that dark mode. And he reminded me, and he said, Mark, it's a fairy tale for children. He didn't say fairy tale. He said, This is a film for kids, and we can't have that. That's why he would never kill any of the main characters. He wouldn't kill Han Solo or Princess Leia or Luke. And I've never forgotten that. He made it for children. And I was using my adult brain to wanna go into a much darker place.”

Mark Hamill

“what could make someone, give up a devotion to what is basically religious entity to give up being a Jedi? Well, the love of a woman. So he falls in love with a woman. He gives up being a Jedi. They have a child together. At some point, the...” “what could make someone, give up a devotion to what is basically religious entity to give up being a Jedi? Well, the love of a woman. So he falls in love with a woman. He gives up being a Jedi. They have a child together. At some point, the child, as a toddler, picks up an unattended lightsaber, pushes the button, and is killed instantly. The wife is so full of grief, she kills herself. I thought that would be because I think about I hear these horrible stories about these children that find unattended guns and so forth and wind up dead. And I thought that resonated with me so deeply that that could possibly but he didn't have the time to tell a backstory like that, I'm guessing.”

Mark Hamill

“I don't go back and watch them again. In fact, when you talked about the rerelease, Lucasfilm said George has tweaked the films, and he's gonna release them on the twentieth anniversary. I said, oh, good. Send me a copy. When my kids heard...” “I don't go back and watch them again. In fact, when you talked about the rerelease, Lucasfilm said George has tweaked the films, and he's gonna release them on the twentieth anniversary. I said, oh, good. Send me a copy. When my kids heard that I wasn't gonna go see them and see them, they said, are you crazy? We've gotta see them. I said, you've watched those movies countless times, way more than I have. They'd have sleepovers, and they'd watch all three on videotape. They said, yeah, dad, but we've never seen them in the theater. I went, oh, of course. On a giant screen, the communal experience of seeing them with an audience is crucial.”

Mark Hamill

“I have these kids coming up and asking me questions like, when you were on the planet of Kazoozik, the Wookiee plan, I go, wait a minute. Do we go to the Wookiee planet? I routinely meet people that know way more about Star Wars than I do....” “I have these kids coming up and asking me questions like, when you were on the planet of Kazoozik, the Wookiee plan, I go, wait a minute. Do we go to the Wookiee planet? I routinely meet people that know way more about Star Wars than I do. And I feel badly sometimes because I say, You know, I have to admit, I have no idea what you're talking about. I've never heard of what you just said.”

Mark Hamill

“it's better than the alternative, not being 73, and I'm still enjoying myself. I mean, my idea of what I would be like at 73 when I was in my twenties was, I don't know, in a wheelchair or with a cane or something. Your mind doesn't age. It...” “it's better than the alternative, not being 73, and I'm still enjoying myself. I mean, my idea of what I would be like at 73 when I was in my twenties was, I don't know, in a wheelchair or with a cane or something. Your mind doesn't age. It's your body that starts showing you that it's harder to go upstairs and doing all these things.”