Memorable Star Wars quotes
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"Popular rule is not democracy, Annie. It gives the people what they want, not what they need."
- Padme to Anakin Skywalker about politics
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PADME: You could look into the glass and see the water. The way it ripples and moves. It looked so real... but it wasn't.
ANAKIN: Sometimes, when you believe something to be real, it becomes real.
They look into each other's eyes.
PADME: I used to think if you looked too deeply into glass, you would lose yourself. -
PADME: Are you going to use one of your Jedi mind tricks on me?
ANAKIN: They only work on the weak-minded. You are anything but weak-minded. -
PADME: You really don't like politicians, do you?
ANAKIN: I like two or three, but I'm not really sure about one of them.
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"The trouble is that people don't always agree. In fact, they hardly ever do."
- Padme explaining the problem of political committees to Anakin -
"You listen. We live in a real world. Come back to it. You're studying to become a Jedi Knight. I'm a Senator. If you follow your thoughts through to conclusion, they will take us to a place we cannot go... regardless of the way we feel about each other."
- Padme rejecting Anakin's advances -
"Jedi aren't allowed to marry. You'd be expelled from the Order. I will not let you give up your future for me."
- Padme rejecting Anakin's advances again -
"I am not going to give in to this. I have more important things to do than fall in love."
- Padme rejecting Anakin's advances yet again -
ANAKIN: It wouldn't have to be that way... we could keep it a secret.
PADME: Then we'd be living a lie - one we couldn't keep up even if we wanted to. -
PADME: You had a nightmare again last night.
ANAKIN: Jedi don't have nightmares.
PADME: I heard you. -
"I'm just concerned about Anakin. I said things... I'm afraid I may have hurt him. I don't know. Maybe I only hurt myself. For the first time in my life, I'm confused."
- Padme confiding in C3PO -
PADME: Sometimes there are things no one can fix. You're not all-powerful, Annie.
ANAKIN: (angry) I should be! Someday I will be... I will be the most powerful Jedi ever! I promise you, I will even learn to stop people from dying. -
PADME: To be angry is to be human.
ANAKIN: (sobbing) To control your anger is to be a Jedi.
PADME: Ssshhh... you're human. -
PADME: Annie, are you just going to sit here and let him die?? He's your friend... your mentor...
ANAKIN: He's like my father, but you heard Master Windu. He gave me strict orders to stay here.
PADME: He gave you strict orders to protect me... and I'm going to save Obi-Wan. So if you plan to protect me, you will have to come along.
ANAKIN: -
PADME: Look, whatever happens out there, follow my lead. I'm not interested in getting into a war here. As a member of the Senate, maybe I can find a diplomatic solution to this mess.
ANAKIN: Don't worry. I've given up trying to argue with you. -
"You are holding a Jedi Knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi. I am formally requesting you turn him over to me, now."
- Padme to Count Dooku in Geonosis -
COUNT DOOKU: I don't wish to make you to join our cause against your will, Senator, but you are a rational, honest representative of your people and I assume you want to do what's in their best interest. Aren't they fed up with the corruption, the bureaucrats, the hypocrisy of it all? Aren't you? Be honest, Senator.
PADME: The ideals are still alive, Count, even if the institution is failing. -
"I know of your treaties with the Trade Federation, the Commerce Guilds, and the others, Count. What is happening here is not government that has been bought out by business... it's business becoming government! I will not forsake all I have honored and worked for and betray the Republic."
- Padme rejecting Count Dooku's offer to join the Separatist movement -
[Before entering Geonosis execution arena]
ANAKIN: Don't be afraid.
PADME: I'm not afraid to die. I've been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life.
ANAKIN: What are you talking about?
PADME: I love you.
ANAKIN: You love me?! I thought we decided not to fall in love. That we would be forced to live a lie. That it would destroy our lives...
PADME: I think our lives are about to be destroyed anyway. My love for you is a puzzle, Annie, for which I have no answers. I can't control it... and now I don't care. I truly, deeply love you, and before we die I want you to know. -
[fighting Droids and Geonosians]
ANAKIN: You call this diplomacy?
PADME: No, I call it aggressive negotiations. -
PADME: Anakin... You're important to the Republic ... to ending this war. I love you more than anything, but I won't let you give up your life as a Jedi for me...
ANAKIN: I've given my life to the Jedi order, but I'd only give up my life, for you. -
PADME: Your jealousy upsets me so much, Anakin. I do nothing to betray you, yet you still don't trust me. Nothing has changed.
ANAKIN: (sheepish) I'm afraid of losing you, Padme . . . that's all.
PADME: I will never stop loving you, Anakin. My only fear is losing you. -
ANAKIN: You are so beautiful!
PADME: It's only because I'm so in love . . .
ANAKIN: No, it's because I'm so in love with you.
PADME: So love has blinded you?
ANAKIN: Well, that's not exactly what I meant . . .
PADME: But it's probably true! -
ANAKIN: I am becoming so powerful with my new knowledge of the Force, I will be able to keep you from dying.
PADME: You don't need more power, Anakin. I believe you can protect me against anything, just as you are. -
"I'll never stop loving you, but you are going down a path I can't follow."
- Padme to Anakin Skywalker