Credited movie context
Every quote remains attached to Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, the credited character, and the actor, which prevents the page from becoming an anonymous quote roundup.
Movie Collection
1977 β’ Sci-Fi / Adventure
At a glance
89 quote cards
59 credited movie quotes
30 source-aware notes
5 characters
5 actors
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) has 59 curated quotes in the MovieQuotes archive, with attribution to Han Solo, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Luke Skywalker and Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, and Mark Hamill. This page gives the collection more context than a bare quote list by connecting the lines to hope and courage.
The editorial value of this sci-fi / adventure page is source-aware browsing: readers can see who says the line, which performance carries it, and which themes make it useful for captions, speeches, reflection, or discovery.
Start with Han Solo's credited line and read it as part of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope's larger emotional pattern. The surrounding tags β blessing, iconic, force, hope, and rescue β help explain why this movie page belongs in the archive even when the current data set is still small.
Every quote remains attached to Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, the credited character, and the actor, which prevents the page from becoming an anonymous quote roundup.
The collection connects to hope and courage, helping readers move from one remembered line into broader emotional or practical quote paths.
The page is structured so new quotes from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope can be added without rewriting the route component or losing the existing editorial frame.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope works as an archive page because the quote data, movie attribution, character credit, and related tags are visible together. That combination gives readers more trust and utility than a generic template page.
Editorial review: 2026-04-24
This section now fills the movie page with 89 quote cards: 59 credited movie quotes plus 30 original source-aware notes. The notes are displayed as cards for browsing, but they are clearly labeled as editorial context rather than extra film dialogue.
"May the Force be with you."
"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Youβre my only hope."
"The Force will be with you. Always."
"Iβve got a bad feeling about this."
"Thatβs no moon. Itβs a space station."
"Whoβs the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?"
"These arenβt the droids youβre looking for."
"She may not look like much, but sheβs got it where it counts, kid."
"Never tell me the odds!"
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
"Let him have it. Itβs not wise to upset a Wookiee."
"In my experience, there is no such thing as luck."
"Your eyes can deceive you. Donβt trust them."
"Stretch out with your feelings."
"Use the Force, Luke."
"Great, kid. Donβt get cocky."
"Somebody has to save our skins."
"Arenβt you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
"Well, the Force is what gives a Jedi his power."
"It is an energy field created by all living things."
"It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together."
"Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
"The fool, or the fool who follows him?"
"This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight."
"Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age."
"For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic."
"A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights."
"Look, I ain't in this for your revolution, and I'm not in it for you, Princess."
"That garbage chute was a really wonderful idea!"
"Chewie here tells me you're lookin' for passage to the Alderaan system?"
"It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs."
"Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you; I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now."
"What is it, some kind of local trouble?"
"Looks like somebody's beginning to take an interest in your handiwork."
"As a matter of fact, I was just going to see your boss."
"Yeah, but this time I've got the money."
"You didn't think I was gonna run, did you?"
"I have a very bad feeling about this."
"It's late; I'm in for it as it is."
"It's not that I like the Empire; I hate it, but there's nothing I can do about it right now."
"How am I ever going to explain this?"
"Look, I can take you as far as Anchorhead."
"You can get a transport there to Mos Eisley or wherever you're going."
"I want to come with you to Alderaan."
"I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi, like my father."
"We could almost buy our own ship for that!!"
"You don't believe in the Force, do you?"
"I am a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan."
"Years ago, you served my father in the Clone Wars."
"Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire."
"I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit."
"My father will know how to retrieve it."
"You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan."
"I should've expected to find you holding Vader's leash."
"I recognized your foul stench when I was brought onboard."
"I'm surprised you had the courage to take the responsibility yourself."
This page keeps the actual quote list limited to 59 verified lines from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, then adds original context notes instead of inventing extra dialogue.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) is treated as a sci-fi / adventure quote collection, so readers can understand how genre shapes the lines.
The collection is anchored by Darth Vader, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Princess Leia, which keeps each quote connected to a speaker rather than floating as an anonymous saying.
Credited performers such as Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones, and Mark Hamill are part of the quote value because delivery, timing, and character framing affect how a line is remembered.
This movie page connects its quote set to hope, courage, wisdom, and life, giving readers more paths than a single title-based archive.
Tags such as blessing, iconic, force, hope, rescue, guidance, and instinct help readers browse Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope by feeling, idea, or use case when they do not remember the exact wording.
Read this Han Solo line as part of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope's sci-fi / adventure storytelling, not as a detached inspirational sentence.
Harrison Ford's credited performance helps explain why the quote carries tone, emotion, or authority beyond the words alone.
For thematic browsing, this quote naturally connects to blessing, iconic, and force and hope and courage.
Read this Princess Leia line as part of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope's sci-fi / adventure storytelling, not as a detached inspirational sentence.
Carrie Fisher's credited performance helps explain why the quote carries tone, emotion, or authority beyond the words alone.
For thematic browsing, this quote naturally connects to hope, rescue, and iconic and hope and courage.
Read this Obi-Wan Kenobi line as part of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope's sci-fi / adventure storytelling, not as a detached inspirational sentence.
Alec Guinness's credited performance helps explain why the quote carries tone, emotion, or authority beyond the words alone.
For thematic browsing, this quote naturally connects to force, guidance, and blessing and hope and wisdom.
Read this Luke Skywalker line as part of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope's sci-fi / adventure storytelling, not as a detached inspirational sentence.
Mark Hamill's credited performance helps explain why the quote carries tone, emotion, or authority beyond the words alone.
For thematic browsing, this quote naturally connects to instinct, danger, and iconic and life.
Read this Obi-Wan Kenobi line as part of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope's sci-fi / adventure storytelling, not as a detached inspirational sentence.
Alec Guinness's credited performance helps explain why the quote carries tone, emotion, or authority beyond the words alone.
For thematic browsing, this quote naturally connects to discovery, danger, and iconic and wisdom.
Read this Obi-Wan Kenobi line as part of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope's sci-fi / adventure storytelling, not as a detached inspirational sentence.
Alec Guinness's credited performance helps explain why the quote carries tone, emotion, or authority beyond the words alone.
For thematic browsing, this quote naturally connects to foolishness, judgment, and guidance and wisdom and life.
Read this Obi-Wan Kenobi line as part of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope's sci-fi / adventure storytelling, not as a detached inspirational sentence.
Alec Guinness's credited performance helps explain why the quote carries tone, emotion, or authority beyond the words alone.
For thematic browsing, this quote naturally connects to mind-trick, force, and iconic and wisdom.
Read this Han Solo line as part of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope's sci-fi / adventure storytelling, not as a detached inspirational sentence.
Harrison Ford's credited performance helps explain why the quote carries tone, emotion, or authority beyond the words alone.
For thematic browsing, this quote naturally connects to confidence, falcon, and style and wisdom and life.