The Star Wars franchise is unmatched for quotable lines, and some of the best are spoken by the villainous Emperor Palpatine.

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Even so, McDiarmid recalled Palpatine’s arc from a scheming senator to the authoritarian galactic dictator “wasn’t mapped out at all” when he was brought back for the ‘Star Wars ...

When the original trilogy was rereleased in 2004, his voice was replaced by that of Ian McDiarmid, who played Palpatine in subsequent “Star Wars” films, starting with “Return of the Jedi ...