Ian McDiarmidQuotes

The Emperor: If you will not be turned, you will be destroyed.

The Emperor: [shoots another round of lightning; continues shooting lightning] Young fool. Only now, at the end, do you understand. Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the dark side. You have paid the price for your lack of vision.

Luke: [writhing in agony] Father, please! Help me!

The Emperor: [intensifies lightning blasts against Luke in a fit of rage] Now, young Skywalker... you will die.

Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker: No. NOOOOO!!!!

Vader: You cannot hide forever, Luke.

Luke: I will not fight you.

Vader: [pauses] Give yourself to the dark side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for... Sister. So, you have a twin sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her, too. Obi-Wan was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the dark side, then perhaps she will.

Luke: [revealing himself] Never!!

The Emperor: [laughing] Good! Your hate has made you powerful. Now, fulfill your destiny and take your father's place at my side.

Luke: Never. I'll never turn to the dark side. You've failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me.

The Emperor: [angrily] So be it... Jedi.

The Emperor: [uses the Force to detach Luke's cuffs; the Emperor's guards leave the room] Welcome, young Skywalker, I have been expecting you. You no longer need those. Guards, leave us. I'm looking forward to completing your training. In time, you will call me "Master".

Luke: You're gravely mistaken. You won't convert me as you did my father.

The Emperor: Oh, no, my young Jedi. You will find that it is you who are mistaken, about a great many things.

Vader: [hands Luke's lightsaber to the Emperor] His lightsaber.

The Emperor: Ah, yes, a Jedi's weapon, much like your father's. By now you must know that your father can never be turned from the dark side. So will it be with you.

Luke: You're wrong. Soon I'll be dead, and you with me.

The Emperor: [chuckles sinisterly] Perhaps you refer to the imminent attack of your Rebel fleet? Yes; I assure you, we are quite safe from your friends here.

Luke: Your overconfidence is your weakness.

The Emperor: Your faith in your friends is yours.

Vader: It is pointless to resist, my son.

The Emperor: [mockingly] Everything that has transpired has done so, according to my design. Your friends, out there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.

Emperor Palpatine: At last. Snoke trained you well.

Kylo Ren: I killed Snoke. I'll kill you.

Palpatine: [as Snoke; as Darth Vader; breathes] My boy... I made Snoke. I have been every voice... ...you have ever heard... ...inside your head. The First Order was just the beginning... I will give you so much more.

Ren: You'll die first.

Palpatine: [lightning flashes, revealing Palpatine's decaying face] I have died before. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... …unnatural.

Ren: [raises his lightsaber at Palpatine] What could you give me?

Palpatine: [raises his decaying hands, with electricity surging between his fingers. Suddenly, multiple ''Xyston''-class Star Destroyers rise from the ground] Everything. A new Empire. The might of the Final Order will soon be ready. It will be yours if you do as I ask: Kill the girl, end the Jedi, and become what your grandfather, Vader, could not. You will rule all the galaxy as the new Emperor. But beware: She is not who you think she is.

Ren: [turns his lightsaber off; a bit confused yet intrigued; Palpatine smiles sinisterly] Who is she?

Chancellor Palpatine: I don't know how much longer I can hold off the vote, my friends. More and more star systems are joining the Separatists.

Mace Windu: If they do break away—

Palpatine: I will not let this Republic that has stood for a thousand years be split in two! My negotiations will not fail.

Mace: If they do, you must realize that there aren't enough Jedi to protect the Republic. We're keepers of the peace, not soldiers.

Palpatine: Master Yoda, do you really think it will come to war?

Yoda: Hmmm. The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see, the future is.