"That is the way they are dancing in Madrid these days... Don Rafael, you'll have to excuse me, I have to catch my breath. Your daughter is a very spirited dancer."

"Lesson number one: never attack in anger."

"A nobleman is nothing but a man, who says one thing and thinks another."

"You know there is a saying, a very old saying: when the pupil is ready the master will appear."

"Chris Ellis — Deke Slayton"

"Michele Little — Jane Conrad"

"David Andrews — Pete Conrad"

"Tracy Reiner — Mary Haise"

"Jean Speegle Howard — Blanch Lovell"

"Max Elliott Slade — Jay Lovell"

"Miko Hughes — Jeffrey Lovell"

"Emily Ann Lloyd — Susan Lovell"

"Mary Kate Schellhardt — Barbara Lovell"

"Kathleen Quinlan — Marilyn Lovell"

"Ed Harris — Gene Kranz"

"Gary Sinise — Ken Mattingly"

"Kevin Bacon — Jack Swigert"

"Bill Paxton — Fred Haise"

"Tom Hanks — Jim Lovell"

"[passing over the moon after the lost landing] Got to tell you, I had an itch to take this baby down though. Do some prospecting. Damn, we were close."

"We're not gonna have power much longer...the ship's bleeding to death."

"I could eat the ass off a dead rhinoceros."

"Look, I don't have the measles. I'm not gonna get the measles."

"[after finding out he's being grounded by exposure to the measles] Medical guys. I had a feeling once they started doing all the blood tests... I know it's their ass if I get sick up there, but I mean, Jesus!"

"[to Deke and other simulation operators] GODDAMMIT! I don't want another estimates. I want the procedures, NOW!"

"I want this mark all the way back to Earth with time to spare. We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch. Failure is not an option!"

"I don't care what anything was designed to do. I care about what it can do."

"The Lunar Module just became a lifeboat."

"Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things any worse by guessing."

"Tell me this is not a government operation."

"EECOM, GNC, these guys are talking about bangs and shimmies up there; doesn't sound like instrumentation to me."

"OK, guys, we're going to the moon."

"[While flipping an electric switch on a panel full of condensation] It's like trying to drive a toaster through a car wash."

"[on TV] When you go into the shadow of the moon and and the moon is between you and the sun, you see stars that are more brilliant than anything you've ever seen on the clearest nights here on Earth. And then you pass into the lunar sunrise over the lunar surface. It must be an awe-inspiring sight. I can't wait to see it myself."

"[As Apollo 13 goes to behind the moon, breaking off communication with Houston] So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side."

"If this doesn't work, we're not gonna have enough power left to get home."

"Harrison Ford is the President of the United States"

"Family Man. Commander-In-Chief. National Hero...Any title worth having is never given. It's earned."

"The most important man, the surest airplane, the most dangerous hijackers..."

"The fate of a nation rests on the courage of one man."

"Impenetrable. Invincible. In Trouble."

"More time? [shoots National Security Advisor] Your national security advisor has just been executed. He's a very good negotiator. He bought you another half-hour."

"When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security advisor, his classified papers, AND his baseball glove!"

"[to a subdued Korshunov] Get off my plane!"

"[in Russian, addressing state dinner in Moscow] The dead remember our indifference; the dead remember our silence. [turns back to English] I came here tonight to be congratulated. But today, when I visited the Red Cross camps, overwhelmed by the flood of refugees fleeing the horror of Kazakhstan, I realize I don't deserve to be congratulated. None of us do. The truth is we acted too late. Only when our own national security was threatened did we act. Radek's regime murdered over 200,000 men, women and children and we watched it on TV. We let it happen. People were being slaughtered for over a year and we issued economic sanctions and hid behind the rhetoric of diplomacy. How dare we. The dead remembered: real peace is not just the absence of conflict, it's the presence of justice. And tonight I come to you with a pledge to change America's policy. Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons, and to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid."

"Sarah Jessica Parker - Dolores Fuller"