Frank Oz: Yoda

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Yoda

[Luke can't levitate his X-Wing out of the bog]
Luke: I can't. It's too big.
Yoda: Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.
Luke: You want the impossible.

Yoda: Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph! Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!

Yoda: Yes, run! Yes, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.
Luke: Vader... Is the dark side stronger?
Yoda: No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
Luke: But how am I to know the good side from the bad?
Yoda: You will know... when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, NEVER for attack.
Luke: But tell my why I can't...
Yoda: No, no! There is no "why".

Yoda: Why wish you become Jedi?
Luke: Well, mostly because of my father, I guess.
Yoda: Ahh... father. Powerful Jedi was he. Powerful Jedi.
Luke: [suspicious] Oh, come on! How can you know my father? You don't even know who I am. Oh, I don't even know what I'm doing here! We're wasting our time!
Yoda: [Looking away from Luke] I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience.
Obi-Wan: [voice-over] He will learn patience.
Yoda: Much anger in him... like his father.
Obi-Wan: [voice] Was I any different when you taught me?

Luke: There's something not right here... I feel cold. Death.
Yoda: [points to a cave opening beneath a large tree] That place... is strong with the dark side of the Force. A domain of evil it is. In you must go.
Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you.

[Luke's ship sinks into the mud]
Luke: We'll never get it out now!
Yoda: So certain are you. Always with you what cannot be done. Hear you nothing that I say?

Luke Skywalker: Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different.
Yoda: No! No different. Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.

Yoda: Stopped they must be; on this all depends. Only a fully trained Jedi Knight with the Force as his ally will conquer Vader and his Emperor. If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil.
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi: Patience.
Luke Skywalker: And sacrifice Han and Leia?
Yoda: If you honor what they fight for? Yes.
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi: If you choose to face Vader, you will do it alone. I cannot interfere.
Luke Skywalker: I understand. R2? Fire up the converters.
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi: Luke! Don't give in to hate. That leads to the Dark Side.
Yoda: Strong is Vader. Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.
Luke Skywalker: I will. And I'll return. I promise.

[Luke has seen a vision of Han, Leia, and Chewie being tortured in Cloud City]
Luke Skywalker: I saw... I saw a city in the clouds.
Yoda: [nods] Friends you have there.
Luke Skywalker: They were in pain...
Yoda: It is the future you see.
Luke Skywalker: The future?
[pause]
Luke Skywalker: Will they die?
Yoda: [closes his eyes for a moment] Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.
Luke Skywalker: I've got to go to them.
Yoda: Decide you must how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could; but you would destroy all for which they have fought and suffered.

Luke: Now all I got to is find this Yoda. If he even exists. It's a really strange place to find a Jedi Master. This place gives me the creeps.
[starts to eat something]
Luke: Still... there's something familiar about this place.
[R2-D2 beeps]
Luke: I don't know, I feel like...
[suddenly whips around and aims his gun at Yoda, who cowers and whimpers]
Luke: ... like we're being watched!
Yoda: Away put your weapon, I mean you no harm! I am wondering, why are you here?
Luke: I'm looking for someone.
Yoda: Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say! Hmm?
[laughs]
Luke: [lowers his gun] Right...
Yoda: Help you, I can. Yes, mmm.
Luke: I don't think so.
[Yoda frowns]
Luke: I'm looking for a great warrior.
Yoda: Oh!
[chuckles and comes toward Luke]
Yoda: Great warrior!
[laughs again]
Yoda: Wars not make one great, heh heh heh!
[grunts as he comes over to Luke's area and picks up the thing Luke was eating]
Luke: Put that down, now we...
[Yoda takes a bite of the food]
Luke: Hey! My dinner!
[takes the food out of Yoda's hand and puts it in the lunch pack]