David Prowse

“Weight training is the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“My answer to that is, 'I think it's the costume that has the charisma.' I'm not saying I don't have it, but the costume has it.”

“To me, the head of the Empire was the Emperor. The Emperor was the real evil one, and Vader was the public face of the Empire.”

“For me, it's a great honor to have played the part of the ultimate screen villain of all time.”

“Everybody remembers the villain.”

“Bodybuilding is very much a case of mind over matter. You've got to tell yourself you can do it.”

“He said, 'You've got a choice of two characters in the movie.' He said, 'The first one is a character called Chewbacca... or the other choice is the main villain.'”

“And I said, 'Well, there's no choice, is there? Thank you very much, I'll have the villain's part.'”

“Being the Green Cross Code man was the best job I ever had, and the most rewarding.”

“The one thing that I was never, ever, ever told was that the voice was going to be dubbed.”

“James Earl Jones and I never ever met. We've never spoken.”

“It's one of the greatest things I've ever done in my life.”

“I get asked to do all these commercials and voice-overs and things. I am still very much involved.”

“I was the Green Cross Code man. I was a superhero in England.”

“I had to do all the acting. I had to do all the dialogue. I had to do everything.”