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[Watching the Apollo 11 landing on TV.]
Pete Conrad: Jim, you think it's too late for him to abort?
Jim Lovell: No, he still has time to get outta there, he just needs someone to wave him off.

Andy: When I go up there on 19, I'm gonna take my entire collection of Johnny Cash along!

[Jim's daughter wants to go trick-or-treating as a hippie]
Barbara Lovell: Dad, can I please wear this?
Jim Lovell: Sure.
Marilyn Lovell: Jim!
Jim Lovell: No! No, absolutely not.

Marilyn Lovell: Naturally, it's 13. Why 13?
Jim Lovell: It comes after 12, hon.

Jim Lovell: Just a little while longer Freddo. Just a little while longer, we're gonna hit that water in the South Pacific. Open up that hatch. It's 80 degrees out there.
Fred Haise, Sr.: 80 degrees.

Jack Swigert: So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side.

Marilyn Lovell: Blanche, Blanche, these nice young men are going to watch the television with you. This is Neil Armstrong, and this is Buzz... Aldrin.
Neil Armstrong: Hi.
Blanche Lovell: Are you boys in the space program too?

Chris Kraft: This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever faced.
Gene Kranz: With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.

Gene Kranz: Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on the spacecraft that's good?

Henry Hurt: I, uh, I have a request from the news people.
Marilyn Lovell: Uh-huh?
Henry Hurt: They're out front here. They want to put a transmitter up on the lawn.
Marilyn Lovell: Transmitter?
Henry Hurt: Kind of a tower, for live broadcast.
Marilyn Lovell: I thought they didn't care about this mission. They didn't even run Jim's show.
Henry Hurt: Well, it's more dramatic now. Suddenly people are...
Marilyn Lovell: Landing on the moon wasn't dramatic enough for them -- why should NOT landing on it be?
Henry Hurt: Look, I, um, I realize how hard this is, Marilyn, but the whole world is caught up in this, it's historic---
Marilyn Lovell: No, Henry! Those people don't put one piece of equipment on my lawn. If they have a problem with that, they can take it up with my husband. He'll be HOME... on FRIDAY!

[On the night of the Apollo 11 landing.]
Jim Lovell: Christopher Columbus, Charles Lindbergh, and Neil Armstrong. Ha, ha, ha. Neil Armstrong!

Jim Lovell: From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it's not a miracle, we just decided to go.

Jim Lovell: We just lost the moon.

Marilyn Lovell: I can't deal with cleaning up. Let's sell the house.

Jim Lovell: Houston, we have a problem.

Ken Mattingly: 13, this is Houston, do you read?
Jim Lovell: Roger that, Ken. Are the flowers blooming in Houston?
Ken Mattingly: That's a negative, Jim. I do not have the measles.
[stares at the flight surgeon]

[As everyone is madly trying to identify the problem from instrument readings.]
Jim Lovell: Houston, we are venting something out into space. I can see it outside window one right now. It's definitely a... a gas of some sort.
[pause]
Jim Lovell: It's got to be the oxygen.

Jim Lovell: We just put Sir Isaac Newton in the driver's seat.

Gene Kranz: EECOM, is this an instrumentation problem, or are we looking at real power loss here?
Sy Liebergot: It's, it's reading a quadruple failure -- that can't happen! It's, it's got to be instrumentation.

Gene Kranz: We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not going to lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.

Gene Kranz: We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch!

[US income tax returns are due in 2 days, but Swigert is 200,000 miles away.]
Jack Swigert: Uh, well, if anyone from the, uh, from the IRS is watching, I... forgot to file my, my, my 1040 return. Um, I meant to do it today, but, uh...
Sy Liebergot: [back at Mission Control] That's no joke. They'll jump on him!

[As they pass over the lunar surface.]
Fred Haise, Sr.: Mare Tranquilitatis -- Neil and Buzz's old neighborhood. Coming up on Mount Marilyn. Jim, you've got to take a look at this.
Jim Lovell: I've seen it.

Gene Kranz: Let's work the problem people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.

Blanche Lovell: If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it.

Blanche Lovell: Are you scared?
Susan Lovell: [nods]
Blanche Lovell: Don't you worry. If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it.

Gene Kranz: I don't care about what anything was DESIGNED to do, I care about what it CAN do.

[Last line, voiceover.]
Jim Lovell: I sometimes catch myself looking up at the moon, remembering the changes of fortune in our long voyage, thinking of the thousands of people who worked to bring the three of us home. I look up at the moon, and wonder: When will we be going back? And who will that be?

Controller #1: Is it A.M. or P.M.?
Controller #2: A.M. Very, very A.M.

Jim Lovell: Ah, Guenter Wendt! I wonder where Guenter Wendt?

[Jim Lovell is told that Ken Mattingly will be too sick to fly.]
Jim Lovell: I've trained for the Fra Mauro highlands... and this is FLIGHT SURGEON HORSESHIT, Deke!
Deke Slayton: Jim, if you hold out for Ken, you will not be on Apollo 13. It's your decision.

Sy Liebergot: Flight... I recommend we shut down reactant valves to the fuel cells.
Gene Kranz: What the hell good is that gonna do?
Sy Liebergot: If that's where the leak is, we can isolate it. We can save what's left in the tanks and we can run on the good cell.
Gene Kranz: You close 'em, you can't open 'em again! You can't land on the moon with one healthy fuel cell!
Sy Liebergot: Gene, the Odyssey is *dying*. From my chair here, this is the last option.

[Taken off the crew for a viral infection]
Ken Mattingly: Well, I... damn. Medical guys. I had a feeling when they started doing all the blood tests that I... I mean I know it's their asses if I get sick up there but I mean JESUS!

Senator: How do you go to the bathroom in space?
Jim Lovell: Well, um... I tell you it's a very complicated procedure that involves cranking down the window and looking for a gas station.

Jack Swigert: I've been going over the numbers again. Have they called up with a reentry plan yet? 'Cause we're coming in too shallow, we're coming in too damn fast.
Jim Lovell: We're working on it, just hold on.
Jack Swigert: Listen, they gave us too much delta vee, they had us burn too long. At this rate, we're going to skip out of the atmosphere and we're never going to get home.
Fred Haise, Sr.: What are you talking about? How'd you figure that?
Jack Swigert: I can add.
Jim Lovell: They've got half the Ph.D.'s on the planet working on it.
Fred Haise, Sr.: They say we're right on the money.
Jack Swigert: And what if they had made a mistake and there was no way to correct it, why would they tell us? There's no reason to tell us!
Fred Haise, Sr.: What do you mean they're not going to tell us? That's bullshit!
Jim Lovell: Now listen, there's a thousand things that have to happen in order. We are on number eight. You're talking about number six hundred and ninety-two.
Jack Swigert: And in the meantime, I'm trying to tell you we're coming in too fast. I think they know it, and I think that's why we don't have a God-damned reentry plan.
Jim Lovell: That's duly noted, thank you Jack.

R.E.T.R.O. White: Flight, we are looking at a typhoon warning on the edge of the prime recovery zone.
Gene Kranz: Say again, RETRO?
R.E.T.R.O. White: Flight, we are looking at a typhoon warning on the edge of the prime recovery zone. Now, this is just a warning, it could miss them...
Gene Kranz: Yeah, only if their luck changes.

Ken Mattingly: 13, this is Houston, do you read?
Jim Lovell: Roger that, Ken. Are the flowers blooming in Houston?
Ken Mattingly: That's a negative, Jim. I do not have the measles.

Fred Haise, Sr.: I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhinoceros.

Jim Lovell: Me and Jack are fixing to eat.
Fred Haise, Sr.: Hey I'm hungry.
Jim Lovell: Are you sure, Freddo?
Fred Haise, Sr.: I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhinoceros.

Reporter: So you're not at all worried about the number 13? Even though you're launch is scheduled for 13:13, and you'll be entering the moon's atmosphere on April 13th.
Jim Lovell: Well, uh, as a matter of fact, or own Ken Mattingly has done some... research on that particular phenomenon. Ken?
Ken Mattingly: Well, I uh, had a black cat walk over a broken mirror under the lunar module ladder, and nothing bad's happened yet.

[Swigert has just successfully powered up the Command Module]
Jack Swigert: Uplink completed. We got her back up, Ken. Boy, I wish you were here to see it.
Ken Mattingly: I'll bet you do.

[Several technicians dump boxes containing the same equipment and tools that the astronauts have with them onto a table.]
Technician: We've got to find a way to make this
[square CSM LiOH canister]
Technician: fit into the hole for this
[round LEM canister]
Technician: ... using nothing but that.

Jim Lovell: Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you.

Marilyn Lovell: Something broke on your daddy's spaceship.
Jeffrey Lovell: Was it the door?

Gene Kranz: Lunar module has just became a lifeboat.

Jim Lovell: Gentlemen, what are your intentions?
[Jack Swigert and Fred Haise turn around and stare at Lovell]
Jim Lovell: I'd like to go home.




	Home Jokes Film Quotes Boss Alert News Forum Links		Back to - Film Quotes - A Apollo 13 [Watching the Apollo 11 landing on TV.] Pete Conrad: Jim, you think it's too late for him to abort? Jim Lovell: No, he still has time to get outta there, he just needs someone to wave him off. Andy: When I go up there on 19, I'm gonna take my entire collection of Johnny Cash along! [Jim's daughter wants to go trick-or-treating as a hippie] Barbara Lovell: Dad, can I please wear this? Jim Lovell: Sure. Marilyn Lovell: Jim! Jim Lovell: No! No, absolutely not. Marilyn Lovell: Naturally, it's 13. Why 13? Jim Lovell: It comes after 12, hon. Jim Lovell: Just a little while longer Freddo. Just a little while longer, we're gonna hit that water in the South Pacific. Open up that hatch. It's 80 degrees out there. Fred Haise, Sr.: 80 degrees. Jack Swigert: So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side. Marilyn Lovell: Blanche, Blanche, these nice young men are going to watch the television with you. This is Neil Armstrong, and this is Buzz... Aldrin. Neil Armstrong: Hi. Blanche Lovell: Are you boys in the space program too? Chris Kraft: This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever faced. Gene Kranz: With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour. Gene Kranz: Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on the spacecraft that's good? Henry Hurt: I, uh, I have a request from the news people. Marilyn Lovell: Uh-huh? Henry Hurt: They're out front here. They want to put a transmitter up on the lawn. Marilyn Lovell: Transmitter? Henry Hurt: Kind of a tower, for live broadcast. Marilyn Lovell: I thought they didn't care about this mission. They didn't even run Jim's show. Henry Hurt: Well, it's more dramatic now. Suddenly people are... Marilyn Lovell: Landing on the moon wasn't dramatic enough for them -- why should NOT landing on it be? Henry Hurt: Look, I, um, I realize how hard this is, Marilyn, but the whole world is caught up in this, it's historic--- Marilyn Lovell: No, Henry! Those people don't put one piece of equipment on my lawn. If they have a problem with that, they can take it up with my husband. He'll be HOME... on FRIDAY! [On the night of the Apollo 11 landing.] Jim Lovell: Christopher Columbus, Charles Lindbergh, and Neil Armstrong. Ha, ha, ha. Neil Armstrong! Jim Lovell: From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it's not a miracle, we just decided to go. Jim Lovell: We just lost the moon. Marilyn Lovell: I can't deal with cleaning up. Let's sell the house. Jim Lovell: Houston, we have a problem. Ken Mattingly: 13, this is Houston, do you read? Jim Lovell: Roger that, Ken. Are the flowers blooming in Houston? Ken Mattingly: That's a negative, Jim. I do not have the measles. [stares at the flight surgeon] [As everyone is madly trying to identify the problem from instrument readings.] Jim Lovell: Houston, we are venting something out into space. I can see it outside window one right now. It's definitely a... a gas of some sort. [pause] Jim Lovell: It's got to be the oxygen. Jim Lovell: We just put Sir Isaac Newton in the driver's seat. Gene Kranz: EECOM, is this an instrumentation problem, or are we looking at real power loss here? Sy Liebergot: It's, it's reading a quadruple failure -- that can't happen! It's, it's got to be instrumentation. Gene Kranz: We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not going to lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option. Gene Kranz: We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! [US income tax returns are due in 2 days, but Swigert is 200,000 miles away.] Jack Swigert: Uh, well, if anyone from the, uh, from the IRS is watching, I... forgot to file my, my, my 1040 return. Um, I meant to do it today, but, uh... Sy Liebergot: [back at Mission Control] That's no joke. They'll jump on him! [As they pass over the lunar surface.] Fred Haise, Sr.: Mare Tranquilitatis -- Neil and Buzz's old neighborhood. Coming up on Mount Marilyn. Jim, you've got to take a look at this. Jim Lovell: I've seen it. Gene Kranz: Let's work the problem people. Let's not make things worse by guessing. Blanche Lovell: If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it. Blanche Lovell: Are you scared? Susan Lovell: [nods] Blanche Lovell: Don't you worry. If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it. Gene Kranz: I don't care about what anything was DESIGNED to do, I care about what it CAN do. [Last line, voiceover.] Jim Lovell: I sometimes catch myself looking up at the moon, remembering the changes of fortune in our long voyage, thinking of the thousands of people who worked to bring the three of us home. I look up at the moon, and wonder: When will we be going back? And who will that be? Controller #1: Is it A.M. or P.M.? Controller #2: A.M. Very, very A.M. Jim Lovell: Ah, Guenter Wendt! I wonder where Guenter Wendt? [Jim Lovell is told that Ken Mattingly will be too sick to fly.] Jim Lovell: I've trained for the Fra Mauro highlands... and this is FLIGHT SURGEON HORSESHIT, Deke! Deke Slayton: Jim, if you hold out for Ken, you will not be on Apollo 13. It's your decision. Sy Liebergot: Flight... I recommend we shut down reactant valves to the fuel cells. Gene Kranz: What the hell good is that gonna do? Sy Liebergot: If that's where the leak is, we can isolate it. We can save what's left in the tanks and we can run on the good cell. Gene Kranz: You close 'em, you can't open 'em again! You can't land on the moon with one healthy fuel cell! Sy Liebergot: Gene, the Odyssey is dying. From my chair here, this is the last option. [Taken off the crew for a viral infection] Ken Mattingly: Well, I... damn. Medical guys. I had a feeling when they started doing all the blood tests that I... I mean I know it's their asses if I get sick up there but I mean JESUS! Senator: How do you go to the bathroom in space? Jim Lovell: Well, um... I tell you it's a very complicated procedure that involves cranking down the window and looking for a gas station. Jack Swigert: I've been going over the numbers again. Have they called up with a reentry plan yet? 'Cause we're coming in too shallow, we're coming in too damn fast. Jim Lovell: We're working on it, just hold on. Jack Swigert: Listen, they gave us too much delta vee, they had us burn too long. At this rate, we're going to skip out of the atmosphere and we're never going to get home. Fred Haise, Sr.: What are you talking about? How'd you figure that? Jack Swigert: I can add. Jim Lovell: They've got half the Ph.D.'s on the planet working on it. Fred Haise, Sr.: They say we're right on the money. Jack Swigert: And what if they had made a mistake and there was no way to correct it, why would they tell us? There's no reason to tell us! Fred Haise, Sr.: What do you mean they're not going to tell us? That's bullshit! Jim Lovell: Now listen, there's a thousand things that have to happen in order. We are on number eight. You're talking about number six hundred and ninety-two. Jack Swigert: And in the meantime, I'm trying to tell you we're coming in too fast. I think they know it, and I think that's why we don't have a God-damned reentry plan. Jim Lovell: That's duly noted, thank you Jack. R.E.T.R.O. White: Flight, we are looking at a typhoon warning on the edge of the prime recovery zone. Gene Kranz: Say again, RETRO? R.E.T.R.O. White: Flight, we are looking at a typhoon warning on the edge of the prime recovery zone. Now, this is just a warning, it could miss them... Gene Kranz: Yeah, only if their luck changes. Ken Mattingly: 13, this is Houston, do you read? Jim Lovell: Roger that, Ken. Are the flowers blooming in Houston? Ken Mattingly: That's a negative, Jim. I do not have the measles. Fred Haise, Sr.: I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhinoceros. Jim Lovell: Me and Jack are fixing to eat. Fred Haise, Sr.: Hey I'm hungry. Jim Lovell: Are you sure, Freddo? Fred Haise, Sr.: I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhinoceros. Reporter: So you're not at all worried about the number 13? Even though you're launch is scheduled for 13:13, and you'll be entering the moon's atmosphere on April 13th. Jim Lovell: Well, uh, as a matter of fact, or own Ken Mattingly has done some... research on that particular phenomenon. Ken? Ken Mattingly: Well, I uh, had a black cat walk over a broken mirror under the lunar module ladder, and nothing bad's happened yet. [Swigert has just successfully powered up the Command Module] Jack Swigert: Uplink completed. We got her back up, Ken. Boy, I wish you were here to see it. Ken Mattingly: I'll bet you do. [Several technicians dump boxes containing the same equipment and tools that the astronauts have with them onto a table.] Technician: We've got to find a way to make this [square CSM LiOH canister] Technician: fit into the hole for this [round LEM canister] Technician: ... using nothing but that. Jim Lovell: Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you. Marilyn Lovell: Something broke on your daddy's spaceship. Jeffrey Lovell: Was it the door? Gene Kranz: Lunar module has just became a lifeboat. Jim Lovell: Gentlemen, what are your intentions? [Jack Swigert and Fred Haise turn around and stare at Lovell] Jim Lovell: I'd like to go home.