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Samuel L. Jackson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Anthony Daniels, Frank Oz, Kenny Baker, Hayden Christensen, Temuera Morrison, Bodie Taylor, and Richard Stride in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

Hayden Christensen: Anakin Skywalker

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Hayden Christensen credited as playing...

Anakin Skywalker

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  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?
  • Anakin Skywalker: Don't say that, Master. You're the closest thing I have to a father.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: Then why don't you listen to me?
  • Anakin Skywalker: I *am* trying.
  • Anakin: Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life. So you might say, that we are encouraged to love.
  • Padmé: We used to come here for school retreat. We would swim to that island every day. I love the water. We used to lie out on the sand and let the sun dry us and try to guess the names of the birds singing.
  • Anakin: I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.
  • Anakin: You call this a diplomatic solution?
  • Padmé: No, I call it aggressive negotiations.
  • Anakin: From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm with you again... I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you- I can't breath. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating... hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do?- I will do anything you ask.
  • [uncomfortable pause]
  • Anakin: ... if you are suffering as much as I am, PLEASE, tell me.
  • Anakin: When I got to them we got into aggressive negotiations.
  • Padmé: Aggressive negotiations? What's that?
  • Anakin: Ah, well, it's negotiations with a lightsaber.
  • [while chasing Padme's assassin, Obi-Wan and Anakin track her to a nightclub]
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?
  • Anakin Skywalker: Don't say that Master... You're the closest thing I have to a father... I love you. I don't want to cause you pain.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: Then why don't you listen to me?
  • Anakin Skywalker: I try, Master.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: Can you see him?
  • Anakin Skywalker: I think he's a she... and I think she's a Changeling.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: In that case be extra careful. Go and find her.
  • [He heads towards the bar]
  • Anakin Skywalker: Where are you going, Master?
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: For a drink.
  • [while Anakin searches the nightclub for the assassin, Obi-Wan sits down at the counter, and the dealer to his right turns to him]
  • Elan Sleazebaggano: You wanna buy some death-sticks?
  • [Obi-Wan executes the Jedi Mind Trick]
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: You don't want to sell me death sticks.
  • Elan Sleazebaggano: Ah, I don't want to sell you death sticks.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: You want to go home and rethink your life.
  • Elan Sleazebaggano: I want to go home and rethink my life.
  • [Elan leaves. The assassin closes in on Obi-Wan, but just before she can shoot him, he turns around and uses his lightsaber to cut off her arm. Anakin is suddenly at Obi-Wan's side]
  • Anakin Skywalker: Easy... Jedi business. Go back to your drinks.
  • [Anakin and Padme are about to be carted into the arena]
  • Anakin: Don't be afraid.
  • Padmé: I'm not afraid to die. I've been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life.
  • Anakin: What are you talking about?
  • Padmé: I love you.
  • Anakin: You love me? I thought we had decided not to fall in love. That we'd be forced to live a lie and that it would destroy our lives.
  • Padmé: I think our lives are about to be destroyed anyway. I truly... deeply... love you and before we die I want you to know.
  • Anakin: If you are suffering as much as I am, please tell me.
  • Padmé: I can't... We can't... It's not possible.
  • Anakin: Anything is possible, Padme, listen to me.
  • Padmé: No you listen! We live in a real world, come back to it. You're studying to become a Jedi, I'm... I'm a senator. If you follow your thoughts through to conclusion, it will take us to a place we cannot go, regardless of the way we feel about each other.
  • Anakin: Then you do feel something!
  • Padmé: I will not let you give up your future for me.
  • Anakin: You're asking me to be rational. That is something that I know I cannot do. Believe me, I wish I could just wish away my feelings, but I can't.
  • Padmé: Please don't look at me like that.
  • Anakin: Why not?
  • Padmé: Because it makes me feel uncomfortable.
  • Anakin: Sorry my lady.
  • Anakin: [telling Padme about the Sand People] I... I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead... every single one of them. And not just the men. But the women... and the children, too. They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals! I HATE THEM!
  • Padmé Amidala: You're not all-powerful, Ani.
  • Anakin Skywalker: Well, I should be!
  • Padmé: You're making fun of me!
  • Anakin: Oh, no, I'd be too frightened to tease a senator!
  • Obi-Wan: What took you so long?
  • Anakin: Well, you know, Master, I couldn't find a speeder that I really liked...
  • Obi-Wan: There he is.
  • Anakin: ...with an open cockpit and the right speed capabilities.
  • Obi-Wan: If you spent as much time practicing your saber techniques as you did your wit, you'd rival Master Yoda as a swordsman.
  • Anakin: I thought I already did.
  • Obi-Wan: Only in your mind, my very young apprentice.
  • Padmé: To be angry is to be human.
  • Anakin: I'm a Jedi. I know I'm better than this.
  • Padmé: Ani? My goodness, you've grown.
  • Anakin: So have you, grown more beautiful... for a senator, I mean.
  • Padmé: Ani, you'll always be that little boy I knew on Tatooine.
  • [while pursuing Count Dooku, a laserblast knocks Padme out of the gunship]
  • Anakin: PADME!
  • [to pilot]
  • Anakin: Put the ship down!
  • Obi-Wan: Anakin! Don't let your personal feelings get in the way!
  • [to pilot]
  • Obi-Wan: Follow that speeder.
  • Anakin: Lower the ship!
  • Obi-Wan: I can't take Dooku alone! I need you! If we catch him, we can end this war right now! We have a job to do!
  • Anakin: I don't care! Put the ship down!
  • Obi-Wan: You will be expelled from the Jedi order!
  • Anakin: I CAN'T LEAVE HER!
  • Obi-Wan: COME TO YOUR SENSES! What do you think Padme would do were she in your position?
  • Anakin: [pause] She would do her duty.
  • Anakin: It doesn't have to be that way. We could keep it a secret.
  • Padmé: We'd be living a lie. One we couldn't keep, even if we wanted to. I couldn't do that. Could you, Anakin? Could you live like that?
  • Anakin: If you'll excuse me Master.
  • [Anakin jumps out of the speeder]
  • Obi-Wan: I hate it when he does that.
  • Padmé: It must be difficult having sworn your life to the Jedi... not being able to visit the places you like... or do the things you like.
  • Anakin: Or be with the people I love.
  • Padmé: Are you allowed to love? I thought that was forbidden for a Jedi.

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