Movie Quotes for The Right Stuff Ru

Frank Sharp (Texan): Which one are you?
Alan Shepard: Shepard.
Frank Sharp (Texan): Oh yeah? Well, which ones Glenn? Hes the one I
  want to meet.
Alan Shepard: Hes right over there.
Frank Sharp (Texan): Scuse me.
Alan Shepard: [to his wife] Louise, Im going to the moon, I swear to
  God. Im on my way.

[an argument rages, primarily between Shepard, Glenn, Carpenter and
  Cooper]
Scott Carpenter: Johns right! Now, whether we like it or not, were
  public figures. Whether we deserve it or not, people are going to
  look up to us. We have got a tremendous responsibility here.
Alan Shepard: You cannot tell a pilot what hes doing when hes not
  flying!
[Argument continues]
Gus Grissom: Wait a minute, wait a minute! [turns Glenn toward him]
  Youve got it all wrong, the issue here aint pussy. The issue here
  is monkey.
John Glenn: What?
Gus Grissom: Us. We are the monkey.
Deke Slayton: What Gus is saying is that were missing the point.
  What Gus is saying is that we all heard the rumors that they want
  to send a monkey up first. Well, none of us wants to think that
  theyre gonna send a monkey up to do a mans work. But what Gus is
  saying is that what theyre trying to do to us is send a man up to
  do a monkeys work. Us, a bunch of college-trained chimpanzees!
Gus Grissom: Fuckin A, bubba.
Deke Slayton: Alright, so what Gus is saying is that weve got to
  change things around here. Hes saying that we are pilots. And we
  know more about what we need to fly this thing than anybody else.
  So what we have to do is to alter the experiment. And what that
  comes down to is who is gonna control this thing from here on out.
Gordon Cooper: What Gus is saying here is that weve got to stick
  together on this deal.

[the Mercury Seven walk through the space center after the response
  to Yuri Gagarins space shot]
John Glenn: Im tired of being forthright, gracious and magnanimous.
Gordon Cooper: Yeah.
John Glenn: Im tired of these stupid questions from the press.
Gordon Cooper: mm-hmm
John Glenn: Im tired of smocks, Im tired of engineers telling us
  what we cant do, Im tired of everybody that says we are not
  pilots!
Gordon Cooper: You tell em, John.
John Glenn: Im tired of monkeys.
Alan Shepard: Yeah.
John Glenn: And most of all, I am sick and tired of being second to
  those... those darn Russians!
Gus Grissom: There ya go.
John Glenn: Now I think its about time we...
Wally Schirra: - got someone up there!
[the others voice their approval]
John Glenn: Lets f-f-f...
Gus Grissom: Fuckin A, bubba.
John Glenn: Thats right! Exactly!

Dwight D. Eisenhower: The first American into space is not going to
  be a chimpanzee. I want test pilots!

Gus Grissom: How ya doin, miss?
Lady Bartender: So-so. How you doin?
Gus Grissom: Im not doin it any more. The damn things draggin in
  the mud and I cant get it up.

Gordon Cooper: [during the lung capacity test] Ha! 93 seconds. Read
  it and weep
[notices Glenn and Carpenter are still exhaling]
John Glenn: [Glenn has run out of breath well past Gordos time]
  Congratulations, Scott. Darn good.
Scott Carpenter: [shaking Glenns hand] You were probably just
  getting warmed up, John. Next time I doubt Ill be the one to win.
Gus Grissom: [to Gordo] You hear that? We were competing with Archie
  and Jughead

Gordon Cooper: You know something, Gus? I got me a new house, new
  furniture. Got me ,000 a year on a magazine contract. Got me a
  Corvette. Got free lunch from one end of America to the other - and
  I aint even been up there yet.
Gus Grissom: Yeah, I noticed that.
Gordon Cooper: Oh, you noticed that, did you? Well I guess theyre
  just saving the best for last.
Gus Grissom: Yeah, I guess so, Hot Dog. Just be sure you dont screw
  the pooch.

[Gordo has been ordered to provide a sperm sample]
Gordon Cooper: Yeah, but uh, nurse, how am I supposed to uh...
Nurse Murch: The best results seem to be obtained through
  fantasization, accompanied by masturbation, followed by
  ejaculation.
Gordon Cooper: Well, that sounds easy enough.

Gus Grissom: I did NOT do anything wrong. The hatch just BLEW. It was
  a GLITCH. It was a- a TECHNICAL MALFUNCTION. Why in hell wont
  anyone believe me?

Pancho Barnes: What are you two rookies gonna have?
Gordon Cooper: Rookies? Now hold on, sis. You are looking at a whole
  new ballgame here now. In fact, in a couple of years, I bet youre
  even gonna immortalize us by putting our pictures up there on your
  wall. [unwittingly referring to the dead pilot memorial over the
  bar] What? I say somethin wrong here?
Pancho Barnes: I tell you, we got two categories of pilots around
  here. We got your prime pilots that get all the hot planes, and we
  got your pud-knockers who dream about getting the hot planes. Now
  what are you two pud-knockers gonna have? Huh?

[first lines]
Narrator: There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever
  challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their
  planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon
  lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an
  hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived
  behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass.
  They called it the sound barrier.

John Glenn: I dont want anything to put this program in a bad light.
  I mean, weve got the opportunity of a lifetime and Im sorry but I
  am not going to stand by and let other people compromise the whole
  darn thing. You know and I know this could lead to something very
  unfortunate.
[Unsure which one says this: "Whats ticking you off?"]
John Glenn: Im talking about the playing around thats going on. Im
  talking about the young girls. Im talking about the cookies. Im
  talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around
  here!
Alan Shepard: Mr. Glenn, you are way out of line. Id advise you not
  to try and foist your view of morality on anybody else in this
  group. Each man here has volunteered to do a job. Each man here is
  devoting long hours of training to prepare for it, and doing many
  things above and beyond the strict call of duty, such as morale
  tours of factories...
John Glenn: - such as bringing girls up to your room in the middle of
  the night?
Alan Shepard: - and foregoing any semblance of an orderly family
  life. And Mr. Glenn, as long as a man uses good sense, what he does
  with his zipper or his wick is his own business!
Scott Carpenter: [Comes between Shepard and Glenn] Now hold it just a
  minute!

[last lines]
Narrator: The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut
  Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffee,
  when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious
  day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than
  any other American - 22 complete orbits around the world; he was
  the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief
  moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever
  seen.

Alan Shepard: [during enema continence test] Tell me something, Mr.
  Gonzalez. You ever have any explosions doing this?
Gonzalez: All the time. Its a mess.
Alan Shepard: Tell me something else, Mr. Gonzalez. How am I doing?
Gonzalez: I think youre going to make it, man. I think youre going
  to be an astronaut.

Chuck Yeager: Hey, Ridley, make another note here, would ya? Must be
  something wrong with this ol Mach meter. Jumped plumb off the
  scale. Gone kinda screwy on me.
Jack Ridley: You go ahead and bust it, well fix it. Personally, I
  think youre seein things.
Chuck Yeager: Yeah, could be. But Im still goin upstairs like a bat
  outta hell.

[about Yeagers bruised ribs]
Jack Ridley: How bad did you ding em?
Chuck Yeager: Well, you might say as I broke a couple of the
  sons-o-bitches.

Glennis Yeager: They dont spend a god-damned thing teaching you how
  to be the fearless wife of a fearless test pilot.

Jack Ridley: Put the spurs to her, Chuck.

Chief Scientist: I agree with those who say we could launch a pod.
Lyndon Johnson: A pot?
Chief Scientist: A POD - a, uh, capsule. Now, we would be in full
  control of zis pod. It vill go up like a cannonball, and come down
  like, uh, a cannonball, splashing down into ze water, the ocean,
  vith a parachute to spare the life of the specimen inside.
Lyndon Johnson: Spaceman?
Chief Scientist: SPE-CI-MEN.
Lyndon Johnson: Well, what kind of spe-ci-men?
Chief Scientist: A tough one. Responsive to orders. I had in mind a
  jimp.
Lyndon Johnson: JIMP? Well what the HELL is a jimp?
Chief Scientist: A jimp. A-a-a jimpanzee, Senator. An ape.

[Alan Shepard climbs into Freedom 7 to find a placard taped to the
  instrument panel reading "No Handball Playing In This Area". John
  Glenn looks in and smiles]
Alan Shepard: [hands placard out to Glenn] Not very funny, John.
John Glenn: Well, I thought it...
Alan Shepard: I do appreciate, John. I surely do.
John Glenn: [the two shake hands] Vaya con Dios, Jose.

Gordon Cooper: You boys know what makes this bird go up? FUNDING
  makes this bird go up.
Gus Grissom: Hes right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.

Game Show MC: Major, Eddie here has a little problem with his
  girlfriend. Did you ever have a problem like that when you were 10?
John Glenn: Yes, I did, Bob. I liked a girl in my class, but all the
  other guys liked her too and she didnt pay any attention. But, I
  kept after her, Eddie.
Game Show MC: Did you finally get her to notice you?
John Glenn: Yes, I did. In fact, I finally got her to marry me.

Lyndon Johnson: And as I was sayin, whoever controls the high ground
  of space controls the world. The Roman Empire controlled the world
  because it could build roads. Later, the British Empire was
  dominant because they had ships. In the Air Stage, we were powerful
  because we had the airplane. And now the Communists have
  established a foothold in outer space. Pretty soon theyll have
  damned space platforms so they can drop nuclear bombs on us, like
  rocks from a highway overpass. Now HOW IN THE HELL did they ever
  get ahead of us?

Deke Slayton: [at press conference] Were not saying anything new
  here. Were just saying the same things that need to be said again
  and again with fierce conviction.

Chuck Yeager: Anybody that goes up in the damn thing is gonna be Spam
  in a can.