Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader.

I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.

As a director he was not that interested in Vader.

George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to vader.

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.

When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

Excitement is a state of being in which our cells of body mind and heart are engaged by the orchestration of our spirit.

Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half, I tweeted 60,000 tweets, over 100,000 words. I spent a minimum eight hours a day on it, sometimes 24 hours.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed.

My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing in great crises to give even his life knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily.

The very best hotel I've stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, and it was sheer luxury. Everybody had a smile on their face. I came home and changed all my pillows because the hotel ones were so beautiful.

Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

My personal trainer suggested paleo to build muscle while staying lean, and it's one of the first plans that's worked for me.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

Had someone from Serbia flown a 'Greater Serbia' flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.

I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. It's unbelievable the kind of attitude people take toward what is the most exciting medium we've got right now.

Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa.

Fossil fuels will run out not because of limited resources but because of the environmental impact. If I can solve that impact, I have basically increased the resource base by a vast amount.