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Ian McDiarmid Quotes
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As an actor, you find yourself in many unusual places.
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[on his role as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in "Star Wars"] To wear the costume to play the character I`m playing is wonderfully empowering. The colors, the textures...people keep coming up to me and saying, `Is it rubber? Is it leather?` I don`t quite k...
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And then of course I thought Palpatine was a pretty good character. I like the notion that he didn`t have any psychological subtlety or depth, that he was just solidly evil and the dirtiest word in his vocabulary was `friend`. I thought that was terrific.
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George felt that it was just and proper. When he made Empire, we hadn`t met, and he didn`t have a particular idea of who would play the Emperor or how the character would develop. And he had no notion that he would do the back-story - Episodes I, II, and ...
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That`s a pattern I`m very happy with. I mean I take theater seriously and I am primarily a stage actor and every now and again a movie comes along and I`m happy to do it if the part`s good.
| Name | Ian McDiarmid |
| Age | 64 |
| Height | 5' 10" (178 cm) |
| Eye Color | Blue |
| Hair Color | Grey |
| Date of Birth | August 11, 1944 |
| Birthplace | Carnoustie, Tayside, Scotland |
| Star Sign | Leo |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor |
