The Right Stuff (1983)
Sam Shepard: Chuck Yeager
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Quotes
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[repeated lines]
Chuck Yeager : Hey, Ridley, ya got any Beeman's?
Jack Ridley : Yeah, I think I got me a stick.
Chuck Yeager : Loan me some, will ya? I'll pay ya back later.
Jack Ridley : Fair enough.
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Chuck Yeager : I'm a fearless man, but I'm scared to death of you.
Glennis Yeager : Oh no you're not. But you oughta be.
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Jack Ridley : [talking to TV] Attaboy, Gus!
[talking to Yeager]
Jack Ridley : Pull that stuff on flight test, it's all over for him. I say he screwed the pooch, pardner. Plain and simple.
Chuck Yeager : Yeah, well, sometimes you get a pooch that can't be screwed, ya know?
Liaison Man : [chuckling] Exactly! Right now the President's got his own problems with the Bay of Pigs, he doesn't want the astronauts' image tarnished. Nothing these guys do is gonna be called a failure. You'd think the public would know they're just doing what monkeys have done.
Chuck Yeager : Monkeys? You think a monkey knows he's sittin' on a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys, they know that, see? I'll tell you somethin'. Takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially when it's on TV. Ol' Gus, he did alright.
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Chuck Yeager : Anybody that goes up in the damn thing is gonna be Spam in a can.
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Chuck Yeager : Monkeys? You think a monkey knows he's sittin' on top of a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys they know that, see? Well, I'll tell you something, it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that's on TV. Ol' Gus, he did all right.
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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, we'll fix it. Personally, I think you're seein' things.
Chuck Yeager : Yeah, could be. But I'm still goin' upstairs like a bat outta hell.
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[about Yeager's 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.
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Chuck Yeager : [NASA recruiters are talking to test pilots] You need lab rabbits.
Recruiter : Sorry, I didn't get that.
Chuck Yeager : I said you need lab rabbits to curl up in your damn capsule. With its heart going "pitter-patter". And a wire up the kazook. I don't hold with it.
Scott Crossfield : I don't either. You want a pilot to become a balistic missile. And then splash down - possibly get lost at sea.
Pancho Barnes : See, some peckerwood's gotta get the thing up. And some peckerwood's gotta land the son of a bitch. And that "peckerwood" is called a "pilot".
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Jack Ridley : [showing Life Magazine cover with astronaut chimp] Here he is, Captain Ham!
[pilots all laugh]
Jack Ridley : Grinnin' like a possum eatin' a sweet potato.
Chuck Yeager : Heh heh.heh heh. Look at the teeth!
Jack Ridley : Does he look like the kinda guy who'd put doo doo in the capsule?