Anthony Daniels > Quotes

“They can see the character, standing before them. The voice became iconic in its own right. Parents often ask me to do it for their children, who don't quite believe them. After all, any old man can claim to be the guy inside the gold suit and kids are rightly skeptical.
'Hello, I am See-Threepio, human-cyborg relations.'
Then I see the magic. I watch as the sound enters their ears, it reaches their brain, it gets processed in moments. And suddenly. Smiles of recognition - and love.”
― Anthony Daniels, I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story

“George and I talked. An hour passed. Surely we both had things to do.
There was a silence.
Nervously.
'Please, may I play the part?'
George paused.
Then quietly,
'Shurr.'
Not even a word. Hardly a syllable. A sound. A small sound above the London traffic.
It changed my life.”
― Anthony Daniels, I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story

“The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.”
― Anthony Daniels

“The poor creature was always out of his depth - always in the wrong place and battered by events beyond his control. Programmed for abilities that would rarely be required in such a violent world, his frustrations were increased by his close and loving friend, Artoo-Detoo - Threepio reticent self-protective - Artoo gung-ho and inquisitive - their affection for each other so clear in its understatement. It was a master-class in odd-couple scripting. Their banter was delightful. The menial and meaningless place in society was classically tragic.
I was hooked.
Forget it was sci-fi.
Forget Luke and Han and Vader.
Threepio was the one for me.”
― Anthony Daniels

“If the Albanian Museum of Atheism followed its Soviet prototype, the exhibits would have traced the ascent of Man from amoebae to Enver Hoxha. We”
― Anthony Daniels, The Wilder Shores Of Marx: Journeys In A Vanishing World

“narrated a finely honed script that spoke of the key moments in our beloved tale. This was Star Wars – In Concert.”
― Anthony Daniels, I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story

“I prefer my saints to live in caves and not to try to impose their standards on the world: for single-mindedness is a cold virtue.”
― Anthony Daniels, The Wilder Shores Of Marx: Journeys In A Vanishing World

“A country that was able to suppress religion entirely and executed dissenters on the merest suspicion was unable to get welders to wear goggles. At”
― Anthony Daniels, The Wilder Shores Of Marx: Journeys In A Vanishing World

“within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. From this point of view, propaganda should not approximate to the truth as closely as possible: on the contrary, it should do as much violence to it as possible. For by endlessly asserting what is patently untrue, by making such untruth ubiquitous and unavoidable, and finally by insisting that everyone publicly acquiesce in it, the regime displays its power and reduces individuals to nullities.”
― Anthony Daniels, The Wilder Shores Of Marx: Journeys In A Vanishing World

“Apart from the massacres, deaths and famines for which communism was responsible, the worst thing about the system was the official lying: that is to say the lying in which everyone was forced to take part, by repetition, assent or failure to contradict. I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda in communist countries was not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate and emasculate.”
― Anthony Daniels, The Wilder Shores Of Marx: Journeys In A Vanishing World

“It is countries with no dissent, which live in the quiet of the grave, that are vulnerable and fragile.”
― Anthony Daniels, The Wilder Shores Of Marx: Journeys In A Vanishing World