"Rockin' Ricky Rialto: [as Pete tries to tell him about the Gremlins] Kid, this is Christmas, not Halloween! Listen, gang. Rockin' Ricky's getting fed up with all this Orson Welles crap, so cool it, will ya?! [crashing is heard] What's that? Kitty, what's that, I said? Some of Rockin' Ricky's fans? [a Gremlin is heard cackling] Hey, you're not a Rockin' Ricky fan! [screams]"

"Rocking Ricky Rialto: Hey, gang, It's been a rough night for Rockin' Ricky, but he's still on the air!"

"Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous."

"Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous. [Crossed Out] We're Here!"

"We're Back! (1985 re-release)"

"They'll be expecting you..."

"What you see... isn't always what you get."

"They're clever. They're mischievous. They'll get into the kitchen, the basement, the garage. They'll get into anything. And once they get in... you're in for it."

"Zach Galligan - Billy Peltzer"

"Phoebe Cates - Kate Beringer"

"Hoyt Axton - Randall Peltzer"

"Howie Mandel - Gizmo (voice)"

"Frank Welker - Stripe (voice)/most of the other mogwai and gremlins"

"Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict...."

"As for the idea of the Force, it is a mishmash of current cultic fashions without any base in ideas. It doesn't seem to be connected with ethics or a code of decent behavior, either. Shywalker (sic) is never called to account for having behaved unpleasantly to his guru (Yoda) before knowing who he is -- even to the extent of knocking food out of the hungry guru's hand. How many religions of any kind would tolerate a disciples having refused to share his food with his disguised spiritual leader?"

"I knew in the making of Empire that this was to be the second of a trilogy. Therefore I considered it the second act, the second movement—but it wouldn’t have the same climax that an ordinary film would have, where it sets up a premise, moves along, there is a payoff with a grand climax of some kind of action. The action in this film came at the beginning because it is a continuation of the first film."

"Fans have written over the last 30 years telling me how eagerly they awaited the second film of the trilogy. I hadn’t realized how many young children would be seeing the film, and how it would affect them. I think the kids responded to the movement, the characters, and the fairy tale quality of the film. The humor helped make the film appealing to more mature audiences as well."

"I think the critics felt that they were going to see an extension of Star Wars. In other words, they wanted another Star Wars. I decided that the potential was much greater than a rerun of Star Wars. When I finally accepted the assignment, I knew that it was going to be a dark film, with more depth to the characters than in the first film. It took a few years for the critics to catch up with the film and to see it as a fairy tale rather than a comic book."

"The geek world, the scholars of Stars Wars, can tell you what scripts exist. I do not know. I’ve heard that. But what I know is when I came in to Empire and when I actually started to work, George said, “You know, Darth is Luke’s father.” And I said, “No shit?” So it was a total surprise to me and I thought wonderful. That to me was when the whole thing got really interesting and I thought, This thing’s going to be so much more complicated than I thought. It’s going to speak to things that I relate to very strongly and everybody who’s had to deal with their issues with their father, and this is really a mythic presentation of those things. And we’ve seen since then endless world catastrophes based on father problems. That’s why I think the saga is always going to be so interesting."

"Clive Revill — Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious"

"Frank Oz — Yoda"

"Jeremy Bulloch — Boba Fett (voiced by Jason Wingreen (original) Temuera Morrison (later releases))"

"Michael Culver – Captain Needa"

"Julian Glover – General Veers"

"Michael Sheard – Admiral Ozzel"

"Kenneth Colley – Admiral Piett"

"Richard Oldfield – Hobbie Klivian"

"Christopher Malcolm – Zev Senesca"

"Denis Lawson – Wedge Antilles"

"John Morton – Dak Ralter"

"Jack McKenzie – Cal Alder"

"John Ratzenberger – Major Derlin"

"Bruce Boa – General Rieekan"

"John Hollis – Lobot"

"David Prowse — Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones)"

"Ian McDiarmid — Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious (DVD and Blu-ray versions only)"

"Alec Guinness — Obi-Wan Kenobi"

"Kenny Baker — R2-D2"

"Peter Mayhew — Chewbacca"

"Anthony Daniels — C-3PO"

"Billy Dee Williams — Lando Calrissian"

"Carrie Fisher — Princess Leia Organa"

"Harrison Ford — Han Solo"

"Mark Hamill — Luke Skywalker"

"The Star Wars Saga Continues"

"The Adventure Continues…"

"[to Princess Leia] You like me because I'm a scoundrel. There aren't enough scoundrels in your life."

"[calling to C-3PO as they're about to escape the Echo Hoth base] Hurry up, goldenrod, or you're gonna be a permanent resident!"

"[after cutting open a tauntaun to form a makeshift sleeping bag for Luke] And I thought they smelled bad... on the outside!"