Tom HanksQuotes

Jenny: Isn't he beautiful?

Forrest Gump: [''uneasily''; ''[[w:Intellectual disability|gesturing towards self] He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen...but... is- is he s- smart, or is he...

Jenny: He's very smart. He's one of the smartest in his class.

Forrest Gump: What's the matter, Momma?

Mrs. Gump: I'm dyin', Forrest. Come on in, sit down over here.

Forrest Gump: Why are you dyin', Momma?

Mrs. Gump: It's my time. It's just my time. Oh, now, don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life. It's something we're all destined to do. I didn't know it, but I was destined to be your momma. I did the best I could.

Forrest Gump: You did good, Momma.

Mrs. Gump: Well, I happened to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you.

Forrest Gump: What's my destiny, Momma?

Mrs. Gump: You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself. Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get.

Forrest Gump: [''narrating''] Momma always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

Mrs. Gump: I will miss you, Forrest.

Forrest Gump: [''narrating''] She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it. And that's all I have to say about that.

Dick Cavett: Here he is, Forrest Gump. Right here. Mr. Gump, have a seat. Forrest Gump, John Lennon.

John Lennon: Welcome home.

Cavett: You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what was China like?

Forrest Gump: Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.

Lennon: No possessions?

Gump: [[w:State_atheism#China|they never go to church.] And in China ]

Lennon: No religion, too?

Cavett: Ah, it's hard to imagine.

Lennon: [[w:Imagine (song)|it's easy if you try] Well, ], Dick.

Gump: [''narrating''; [w:Sean Lennon|his little boy; [w:Mark David Chapman|somebody; [w:Death of John Lennon|shot him] Some time later, that nice young man from England was coming home to see ], and he was signin some autographs when, for no reason at all, ] ].

Bubba Blue: I'm gonna lean up against you, you just lean right back against me. This way, we don't have to sleep with our heads in the mud. You know why we a good partnership, Forrest? Cause we be watchin out for one another. Like brothers and stuff. Hey, Forrest, there's somethin I've been thinkin about. I got a very important question to ask you. How would you like to go into the shrimpin business with me?

Forrest Gump: Okay.

Bubba Blue: Man, I tell you what, I got it all figured out, too. So many pounds of shrimp to pay off the boat, so many pounds for gas, we can just live right on the boat. We ain't got to pay no rent. I'll be the captain; we can just work it together. Split everything right down the middle. Man, I'm tellin you, fifty-fifty. And, hey, Forrest, all the shrimp you can eat.

Forrest Gump: [narrating] That's a fine idea. Bubba did have a fine idea.

Lt. Dan Taylor: There are two standing rules in this outfit. One, take care of your feet. Two, don't go doing something stupid, like getting yourself killed!

Forrest Gump: [to Bubba] I sure hope I don't let him down.

Lt. Dan Taylor: Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?

Forrest Gump: Uh, I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him.

Forrest Gump: Done, Drill Sergeant!

Drill Sergeant: [off screen; Hurrying over] GUMP! Why did you put that weapon together so quickly, Gump?!

Forrest Gump: You told me to, Drill Sergeant.

Drill Sergeant: [Looks at a stopwatch he is holding; [w:Officer Candidate School (United States Army)|OCS] Jesus H. Christ! This is a new company record. If it wouldn't be a waste of such a damn fine enlisted man, I'd recommend you for ], Private Gump! You are gonna be a general someday, Gump! Now, disassemble your weapon and continue!

Drill Sergeant: GUMP! What's your sole purpose in this Army?!

Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, Drill Sergeant!

Drill Sergeant: [[w:Intelligence quotient|I.Q.] God damn it, Gump! You're a goddamned genius! That's the most outstanding answer I have ever heard! You must have a goddamned ] of 160! You are goddamned gifted, Private Gump! Listen up, people...

Forrest Gump: [''narrating''] Now for some reason I fit in the Army like one of them round pegs. It's not really hard. You just make your bed real neat and remember to stand up straight and always answer every question with "Yes, Drill Sergeant!

Drill Sergeant: This is one very intelligent individual! You lock your scuzzy bodies up behind that private and do exactly what he does, and you will go far in this man's Army! Is that clear?!

Forrest Gump, Recruits: YES, DRILL SERGEANT!

Forrest Gump: Hello. I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump.

Recruit Officer: [''shouting''; [w:US Army|Army] Nobody gives a horse's shit who you are, fuzzball! You're not even a low-life, scum-sucking maggot! Get your faggoty ass on the bus, you're in the ] now!

Recruit #1: Seat's taken.

Recruit #2: Taken.

Forrest Gump: [''describing his induction''] At first it seemed like I made a mistake, seeing how it was my induction day and I was already gettin yelled at.

Bubba Blue: You can sit down... if you want to.

Forrest Gump: [''narrating''] I didn't know who I might meet or what they might ask?

Bubba Blue: Have you ever been on a real shrimp boat?

Forrest Gump: No, but I've been on a real big boat.

Bubba Blue: I'm talkin about a shrimp-catchin boat. I've been workin on shrimp boats all my life. I started out on my uncle's boat, that's my mother's brother, when I was maybe about nine. I was just lookin into buyin a boat of my own and got drafted. My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me "Bubba." Just like one o them ol redneck boys; can you believe that?

Forrest Gump: My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump: [''narrating''] So Bubba was from Bayou La Batre, Alabama, and his momma cooked shrimp. And her momma before her cooked shrimp. And her momma before her momma cooked shrimp, too. Bubba family knew everything there was to know about the shrimpin business.

Bubba Blue: I know ever'thing there is to know about the shrimpin business. Matter of fact, I'm goin into the shrimpin business for myself after I get out o the Army.

Forrest Gump: Okay.

Forrest Gump: [''narrating''] You know, it's funny what a young man recollects. Cause I don't remember being born. I, I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But, I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.

Young Jenny: You can sit here if you want.

Forrest Gump: [''narrating''] I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel.

Young Jenny: Well, are you gonna sit down, or aren't ya?

Young Jenny: What's wrong with your legs?

Young Forrest: Um, nothing at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy.

Young Jenny: Then why do you have those shoes on?

Young Forrest: Momma says my back is as crooked as a question mark. These shoes are gonna make me as straight as an arrow. They're my magic shoes.

Forrest Gump: [''narrating''] I just sat next to her on that bus and had conversation all the way to school. And next to Momma, no one ever talked to me or asked me questions.

Young Jenny: Are you stupid or something?

Young Forrest: Momma says stupid is as stupid does.

Young Jenny: I'm Jenny.

Young Forrest: I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump: [''narrating''] From that day on, we was always together. Jenny and me was like peas and carrots.

Nancy: Amy's getting married in a few weeks and she thinks some maniac is following her around.

Elliot: Oh, is he a big man?

Amy: Let's just forget it.

Elliot: No, Amy, is he a big man?

Amy: Yes.

Elliot: Probably sexual!

Steven Gold: Don't be scared, cuz I'm funny Steve... with a lampshade on his head. Singing and dancing, for your entertainment, his own rendition of "Singin in the Rain"!

Steven Gold: If you're sending someone down, you better send him fast - cuz funny Steve's going under.

Steven Gold: I've been coming down here for 18 months. 18 months! And I have not missed a night. I take the money that my father sends me and I pay for a shrink, and I buy groceries. Now I owe my shrink, and I'm behind in my rent. My roommate's a bastard - he's changed the locks in in my front door - I can't get in! He won't give me a key until I pay him. You wanna play games? I can play games! I can play games. I can play ventriloquist with my underwear. I can play darts while maintaining an erection. I can gargle dishwater and fart O Canada at the same time! I can play piano without being popular. I once had this dream - I was dancing on the streetcorner with a jackhammer up my ass - now that was either a sex dream or I need more fiber in my diet. If any of this is turning you on, just let me know.

Steven Gold: We are all God's animated cartoons.

Pep Streebeck: [as Joe arrives] Thank God it's Friday!

Pep Streebeck: And if I may a toast... to Granny Mundy: may you live as long as you want but never want as long as you live.

Abe Weiss: Objection!

Judge White: Mr. Killian, Mr. Kramer and Mr. McCoy, you will all approach the bench! Men go towards the judge. Sherman surrenders casette Mr. McCoy, need I remind you that you are under oath. So I am going to ask, is that your tape?

Sherman McCoy: Yes. That is my tape. I used it to make a recording.

Sherman McCoy: There's one thing I can do. I want to see the truth come out, and burn every one of them, and there's only one way to do that.

Mr. McCoy: And what is that?

Sherman McCoy: Lie.

Mr. McCoy: Oh... you know I have always been a great believer in the truth. I have lived my life as honestly as I can. I, I believe in the truth as an essential companion to a man of conscience. A beacon in this vast and dark wasteland, that is our modern world. And yet...

Sherman McCoy: Yes?

Mr. McCoy: ...in this case, if the truth won't set you free, then lie.

Sherman McCoy: I understand you went to Yale.

Tom Killian: Yeah. You, too. Huh?

Sherman McCoy: What did you think of it?

Tom Killian: It was okay. As law schools go. They give you the scholarly view. You know. It's terrific for anything you want to do - as long as it doesn't involve real people.

Sherman McCoy: Remember guys, a frantic salesman is a dead salesman!

Joe Banks: I have no people of my own, Chief. I'm my only hope for a hero.

Joe Banks: [watching the moon rise] Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how big... thank you. Thank you for my life.

Scott Pell: [picks up guitar case and leaves] Well, I guess you don't need me today.

Mr. White: [Pell nods in agreement and leaves studio] Yeah. Wolfman, thank you very much. You're a good man, Scott Pell. Give me a call later on in the week. We'll do something.

Guy: I can't believe this.

Mr. White: The Wonders are in breach of contract.

Guy: I'm sorry. I'm really sorry, Mr. White.

Mr. White: Well, don't worry. No one's going to prison, son. It's a very common tale.

Guy: Well, maybe for you, but I was in a band, we still have a hit record.

Mr. White: Yes, you do. The one-hit Wonders. A very common tale.

Guy: My first time in a real recording studio.

Mr. White: [approaches Guy; sees Guy's face change at mention of her name; leaves studio] You want to hang around for a while? Ok by me, but you're out of the hotel this afternoon. Can't help that. You know, Horace was right about you, Guy; you are the smart one. Lenny is the fool, Jimmy is the... talent, and Faye is... well, now, Faye is special, isn't she? And you are the smart one. That's what I think anyway.

Jimmy: Hey, do we have a Top 10 record?

Mr. White: You sure do.

Jimmy: Well, then, we shouldn't be here.

Mr. White: Jimmy, you'd rather be back on that state fair tour? They're playing in North Dakota this week.

Eamon Bailey: [...] knowing is good... but knowing everything is better.

Charlie Wilson: [[U.S.; [strategy; [Afghanistan; [Russians] You mean to tell me that the ] ] in ] is to have the Afghans keep walking into machine gun fire til the ] run out of bullets?

Gust Avrakotos: That's Harold Holt's strategy, it's not U.S. strategy.

Charlie Wilson: What is U.S. strategy?

Gust Avrakotos: Well strictly speaking, we don't have one. But we're working hard on that.

Charlie Wilson: Who's we'?

Gust Avrakotos: Me and three other guys.

Joanne Herring: I talk about God for one simple reason. We need him on our side.

Charlie Wilson: [[w:Sarin|sarin] Well, should we try this scotch or is it going to release ] gas when I open it?

Gust Avrakotos: Ah, I don't think so — but open it over there.

Gust Avrakotos: You see the nerdy-looking kid in the white shirt playing against the four guys at once?

Charlie Wilson: Yeah?

Gust Avrakotos: Which one of the guys do you think is a strategic weapons expert with the CIA?

Charlie Wilson: …hm.

Gust Avrakotos: That was a trick question, Charlie; it's the nerdy-looking kid in the white shirt. Alright, no reason this can't be fun, y'know.

Charlie Wilson: [[James Bond] You're no ].

Gust Avrakotos: [[Thomas Jefferson] You're no ], so let's call it even.

Charlie Wilson: Gosh, Joanne, it's great to hear from you. Could I possibly call you back in just a little bit?

Joanne Herring: [[Ronald Reagan] Is ] in your bedroom right now?

Charlie Wilson: No.

Joanne Herring: Then I'm considerably more important than whoever is.

Joanne Herring: [[nothing] Why is Congress saying one thing and doing ]?

Charlie Wilson: [[tradition] Well, it's ] mostly.

Charlie Wilson: [[Glory|glorious; [world] These things happened. They were ] and they changed the ]... and then we fucked up the end game.

Charlie Wilson: [[Muhammad Zia ul-Haq; [Zulfikar Ali Bhutto] * Comment about ], who had deposed Prime Minister ].

Charlie Wilson: [[know; [character; [military] You ] you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have ] flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a ] coup.

Charlie Wilson: [[Muhammad Zia ul-Haq] *Comment on his meeting with ] and two senior staff.

Charlie Wilson: [[Pakistani; [vaudeville] Well, there were three of them; it was like being slapped around by a ] ] team.

Joe Fox: [to Kathleen Kelly at bookstore] (Balloons get caught in the door) Good thing it wasn't the fish!

Joe Fox: [to Kathleen Kelly at bookstore, describing his 4-year-old half-brother Matthew and 11-year-old aunt Annabel] Matt is my father's son. Annabel is my grandfather's daughter. We are -- an American family.

Joe Fox: [to Kathleen Kelly (Shopgirl) in email] The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!

Joe Fox: [to Kathleen Kelly] I met a man in an elevator today who knew exactly what he wanted. And I found myself wishing I were as lucky as he.

Joe Fox: [to Kevin] I said we were a piazza, where people could mingle and mix and be…I was eloquent.

Joe Fox: [to Kevin] I love Patricia. Patricia's amazing. Patricia makes coffee nervous.

Joe Fox: [to Kathleen Kelly (Shopgirl) in instant message] The Godfather is the I Ching. The Godfather is the sum of all wisdom. The Godfather is the answer to any question. What should I pack for my summer vacation? Leave the gun, take the cannoli. What day of the week is it? Maunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday. And the answer to your question is Go to the mattresses. You're at war. It's not personal, it's business. It's not personal it's business. Recite that to yourself every time you feel you're losing your nerve. I know you worry about being brave, this is your chance. Fight. Fight to the death.

Joe Fox: [to Kathleen Kelly (Shopgirl) in email] Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could pass all my zingers to you and then I would never behave badly and you could behave badly all the time and we'd both be happy? On the other hand, I must warn you that when you finally have the pleasure of saying the thing you mean to say at the moment you mean to say it, remorse inevitably follows.

Joe Fox: [to Kathleen Kelly (Shopgirl) in email] Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly-sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.

Joe Fox: [to Kathleen Kelly] Timing is everything. He waited until you were primed. Until you knew there was no other man you could ever love.

Joe Fox: [to Kathleen Kelly about her internet friend NY152] Maybe he is fat. Yup. He's fat. He's a fatty.

Joe Fox: [to Kathleen Kelly] I would have asked for your number… and I wouldn't have been able to wait 24 hours before calling and asking, "How about coffee, drinks, dinner, a movie, for as long as we both shall live?

Jimmy Dugan: [Hits a ground ball; Hits a deep fly ball] Here's a job for you, Jimmy. Managing girl ballplayers. Just go out there, wave your little hat around - but don't drink." Ah! Why would I wanna drink? I'm a goddamn Peach! Ah, double play! Now I'm hitting like a girl. "But be nice to them, they're good ballplayers." Ah! Catch that, blondie! Ha, ha!

Jimmy Dugan: [to an umpire; after the umpire throws him out] Did anyone ever tell you, you look like a penis with that little hat on? I can't believe nobody ever called you that before!

Jimmy Dugan: [to the Peaches' homely chaperone; [w:Wicked Witch of the West|you in the Wizard of Oz] By the way, I loved ].

Ray Peterson: Shut up. SHUT UP, ART, SHUT UP! God, you don't know when to quit, do you?! Look at me! I'm a shell of a man because of you, Art! YOU LEAVE THEM ALONE! GET OFF THEIR CASE ALREADY! They didn't do anything to us! They didn't do anything to us! All right, so they're different, so they keep to themselves! Can you blame them?! They live next door to people who break into their house and burn it down while they're gone for the day! Remember what you were saying about people in the burbs, Art? People like Skip? People who mow their lawn for the 800th time, and then SNAP?! WELL, THAT'S US! IT'S NOT THEM, THAT'S US! WE'RE the ones who are vaulting over the fences, and peeking in through people's windows! We're the ones who are throwing garbage in the street, and lighting fires! WE'RE the ones who are acting suspicious and paranoid, Art! WE'RE THE LUNATICS! US! IT'S NOT THEM! It's us.

Ray Peterson: I'm only trying to take a nap! I'm only laying here with my eyes closed trying to get some goddamn sleep!

Ray Peterson: I can't walk anywhere without you asking me where I'm going - I'm going to Paris, France, okay? I'm going to Banff, Canada, alright? That's where I'm going.

Ray Peterson: Nobody knocks off an old man in my neighborhood and gets away with it.

Ray Peterson: I'm going to go do something productive. I'm gonna go watch television.

Ray Peterson: I-I've never seen that before. I've never seen anybody drive their trash to the curb and beat the hell out of it with a stick... I've never seen that before.

James B. Donovan: We need to get off this merry-go-round sir. The next mistake our countries make could be the last one. We need to have the conversation our governments can't.

James B. Donovan: Everyone will hate me, but at least I'll lose.

James B. Donovan: It doesn't matter what others think. You know what you did.

Gladys Presley: I Hate Elvis".

Colonel Tom Parker: [to Elvis] Yes. "I Hate Elvis". In my way of thinking, "I Love Elvis," that's an easy sell. Those who hate your son will do so whether we profit from it or not. After all, what is hate worth if it's free?

Vernon Presley: Oh, yeah. I get it.

Arsenio Hall: There's an attitude out there. There's some things going on. A lot of hopelessness. What do we need to do?

Fred Rogers: There's no simple answers, of course. But if we could, through television programs, as well as every other imaginable program, let people know that each one of us is precious.

Oprah Winfrey: What do you think is the biggest mistakes parents make in raising their children?

Fred Rogers: Not to remember their own childhood. I think that the best thing that we can do is to..think about what it was like for us and know what our children are going through.

Oprah Winfrey: But you know what? It's so hard once you get to be a parent. You always say, I will never do this, when your parents are doing it to you. You say, I will never do this to my child. And then you get to our age and you forget what it was like to be this size.You really do forget.

Fred Rogers: Well, but those children can help re-evoke what it was like. That's why, when you're a parent, you have a new chance to grow.

First AD: Daniel, you set?

Fred Rogers: I'm set!

First AD: Thank you, Daniel.

Lloyd Vogel: Did she just talk to the puppet?

Bill Isler: Daniel isn't just a puppet. Daniel is Fred, and Fred is Daniel.

Lloyd Vogel: Hey, what did you say to Jerry?

Fred Rogers: I asked him to pray for me. I figure anyone who is going through what he is going through must be awfully close to God.

Fred Rogers: [to Lloyd] I don't think you are broken. I know you are a man of conviction, a person who knows the difference between what is wrong and what is right. Try to remember that your relationship with your father also helped to shape those parts. He helped you become what you are.

Fred Rogers: Depression is rage turned inward. To forgive is to release the anger for someone or something.

Fred Rogers: There... There is no normal life that is free from pain.

Fred Rogers: I hope you know that you made today a very special day by just your being you. There's no one in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.

Fred Rogers: I don't think anybody can grow unless he really is accepted exactly as he is.

Fred Rogers: [to his viewers from his show at the beginning of the movie; opens a door in the picture board to reveal a photo of a traumatized Lloyd Vogel] I'd like you to meet a new friend of mine. His name is Lloyd Vogel. Someone hurt my friend Lloyd, and not just on his face. He is having a hard time forgiving the person who hurt him. Do you, do you know what that means? To forgive? It's a decision we make to release a person from the feelings of anger we have at them. It's strange, but sometimes it's hardest of all to forgive someone we love.

Katharine Graham: Oh well, we don't always get it right. You know, we're not always perfect. But, I think if we just - keep on it, you know, that's the job, isn't it?

Ben Bradlee: Yes, it is.

Katharine Graham: Ben, that's not my role. You know that. I wouldn't presume to tell you how to write about him. Just as I wouldn't take it upon myself to tell him he should hand over a classified study, which would be a crime, by the way, just so he can serve as your source.

Ben Bradlee: Our source, Katherine.

Ben Bradlee: [[John F. Kennedy|Jack Kennedy; [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jackie; pause] ]. The night he was assassinated, Tony and I were down at the Naval Hospital so we would be there to meet ] when she landed. She was bringing Jack's body back on the plane from Dallas and she walked into the room. She was still wearing that pink suit, with Jack's blood all over it. She fell into Tony's arms and they held each other for quite a long time. And then Jackie looked at me and said, "None of this. None of what you see. None of what I say, is *ever* going to be in your newspaper, Ben." And that just about broke my heart. I never - never thought of Jack as a source. I thought of him as a friend. And that was my mistake. And it was something that Jack knew all along. We can't be both. We have to choose. And - that's the point. The days of us smoking cigars together on Pennsylvania Avenue were over. We have to be the check on their power. If we don't hold them accountable, then, my God, who will?

Katharine Graham: Well, I've never smoked a cigar. And I have no problem holding Lyndon or Jack or Bob or any of them accountable. We can't hold them accountable if we don't have a newspaper.

Fritz Beebe: If the government wins and we're convicted, the Washington Post as we know it will cease to exist.

Ben Bradlee: Well, if we live in a world where the government could tell us what we can and cannot print, then the Washington Post as we know it has already ceased to exist.

Roger Clark: What if we wait? What if we hold off on printing today. Instead we call the Attorney General and we tell them that we intend to print on Sunday. That way we give them and us time to figure out the legality of all of it, while the Court in New York decides the Times case.

Ben Bradlee: Are you suggesting we alert the Attorney General to the fact that we have these documents, that we're going to print, in a few days?

Roger Clark: Well, yes, that is the idea.

Ben Bagdikian: Yeah, well, outside of landing the Hindenburg in a lightning storm, that's about the shittiest idea I've ever heard.

Fritz Beebe: Oh boy!

Anthony Essaye: Ben, look, we know your reporters are talented. But, The New York Times spent three months going over these documents. You've got, what? Seven hours now until the paper goes to press? Can you honestly tell me that that is enough time to make sure not a single military plan, not a single U.S. soldier, not a single American life will be put in harms way? That this will do no damage to the United States if you publish?

Ben Bradlee: Yes.

Roger Clark: And you're sure about that?

Ben Bradlee: No! That's why I've called you guys.

Ben Bradlee: So, can I ask you a hypothetical question?

Ben Bradlee: Well, I don't think you're gonna like the real one, either.

Katharine Graham: [[w:Pentagon Papers|Papers] Do you have the ]?

Ben Bradlee: Not yet.

Ben Bradlee: No matter what happens tomorrow, we are not a little local paper anymore.

Ben Bradlee: They'll be defending the first amendment. We'll tell them that the only way to protect the right to publish - is to publish.

Ben Bradlee: He says we can't, I say we can. There, you're caught up.

Deke Slayton: [He and Dr. Chuck find Lovell observing the rocket and launch pad being transported] Jim, we've got a problem.

Dr. Chuck: I just got some blood work back from the lab. Charlie Duke has the measles.

Jim Lovell: [Unconcerned] So, we need a new backup.

Dr. Chuck: You've all been exposed to it.

Jim Lovell: Oh, I've had the measles.

Deke Slayton: Ken Mattingly hasn't.

Jim Lovell: You want to break up my crew two days before the launch; when we can predict each others moves, we can read the tone of each others voices?

Dr. Chuck: Ken Mattingly will be getting seriously ill precisely when you and Haise will be ascending from the lunar surface to rendezvous with him.

Deke Slayton: Jim, that's a lousy time for a fever.

Jim Lovell: All right, now look, Jack Swigert has been out of the loop for weeks.

Chris Kraft: He's fully qualified to fly this mission.

Jim Lovell: He's a fine pilot, but when was the last time he was in a simulator?

Chris Kraft: I'm sorry, Jim, I understand how you feel. Now we can do one of two things here. We can either scrub Mattingly and go with Swigert, or we can bump all three of you to a later mission.

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.

Reporter 1: So, the number 13 doesn't bother you?

Fred Haise: Only if it's a Friday, Phil.

Reporter: Apollo 13, lifting of at thirteen hundred hours and thirteen minutes, and entering the moon's gravity on April 13th.

Jim Lovell: Ken Mattingly's been doing some scientific research regarding that very phenomenon, haven't you, Ken?

Ken Mattingly: Uh, yes, well, I had a black cat walk over a broken mirror under the lunar module ladder. It didn't seem to be a problem.

Fred Haise: We're also considering a letter from a fella who said we oughta take a pig up with us for good luck.

Reporter 1: Does it bother you that the public regards this flight as routine?

Jim Lovell: There's nothing routine about flying to the moon. I can vouch for that. And, uh… I think that an astronaut's last mission, his final flight, that's always going to be very special.

Reporter 2: Why is this your last, Jim?

Jim Lovell: I'm in command of the best ship with the best crew that anybody could ask for, and I'll be walking in a place where there's 400 degrees difference between sunlight and shadow. I can't imagine, uh, ever topping that.

Jeffrey Lovell: [[w:Apollo 1|the fire] Dad, did you know the astronauts in ]?

Jim Lovell: [[w:Gus Grissom|All; [w:Ed White (astronaut)|of; [w:Roger B. Chaffee|them] Yeah, I knew the astronauts in the fire. ] ] ].

Jeffrey Lovell: Could that happen again?

Jim Lovell: Well, I'll tell you something about that fire. A lot of things went wrong. The, uh, the door, it's called the hatch. They couldn't get it open when they needed to get out, that was one thing. And, uh... well, a lot of things went wrong in that fire.

Jeffrey Lovell: Did they fix it?

Jim Lovell: Oh, yes, absolutely. We fixed it. It's not a problem anymore.

Jim Lovell: Hey! Anybody home?

Barbara Lovell: [wearing a hippy costume] I'm not being a cheerleader, Mom! You don't understand, I worked so hard on this!

Marilyn Lovell: Barbara, maybe I don't understand, but you're not wearing that out in this neighborhood. That's the end of it!

Susan Lovell: She's not even wearing a bra! You can see everything–

Barbara Lovell: Shut up!

Marilyn Lovell: Susan!

Jim Lovell: [Shows up] Hi.

Marilyn Lovell: [Surprised] Jim.

Jim Lovell: Hon, trick-or-treat. Remember those Easter vacation trips we had planned for Acapulco?

Marilyn Lovell: Uh oh.

Jim Lovell: Well, I was thinking there might be a slight change in destination.

Marilyn Lovell: Really?

Jim Lovell: Maybe, say...the moon.

Jim Lovell: Al Shepard's ear infection has flared up. We've all been bumped up to the prime crew of Apollo 13. Straight to the front line, to the Fra Mauro highlands.

Marilyn Lovell: Six months? You're moving up six months?

Barbara Lovell: [Shows Jim her costume] Dad, can I please wear this?

Jim Lovell: ...Sure.

Marilyn Lovell: Jim.

Jim Lovell: [Promptly] No! No, absolutely not.

Barbara Lovell: [Closes her bedroom door] This stinks!

Marilyn Lovell: They're not rushing things, are they? I mean, are you going to be ready in six months?

Jim Lovell: We'll be ready. Oh, but I wouldn't wanna be around Al Shepard tonight. I gotta get over there, we gotta get up to speed on this.

Marilyn Lovell: Go, go.

Jim Lovell: I'm gonna walk on the moon, Marilyn.

Marilyn Lovell: I know, I can't believe it. Naturally, it's 13. Why 13?

Jim Lovell: It comes after 12, hon.

Jim Lovell: The astronaut is only the most visible member of a very large team, and all of us, right down to the guys sweeping the floor are honored to be a part of it. What did the man say? "Give me a lever long enough and I'll move the world." Well that's exactly what we're doing here. This is divine inspiration, folks. It's the best part of each one of us that anything is possible. Things like a computer that can fit into a single room and hold millions of pieces of information, or the Saturn V rocket. Now, this is the actual launch vehicle that will be taking Alan Shepard and his crew on the first leg of the Apollo 13 mission.

Congressman: When are you going up again, Jim?

Jim Lovell: I'm slated to be the commander of Apollo 14 sometime late next year.

Congressman: If there is an Apollo 14. Now, Jim, people in my state are asking why we're continuing to fund this program now that we've beaten the Russians to the moon.

Jim Lovell: [[w:Christopher Columbus|Christopher Columbus] Well, imagine if ] came back from the New World, and no one returned in his footsteps.

Marilyn Lovell: You're drunk, Lovell.

Jim Lovell: Yup, I'm not used to the champagne.

Marilyn Lovell: [Picks at some random glasses and dishes on the patio table, then drops the trash bag she's holding] Me neither. I can't deal with cleaning up. Let's sell the house.

Jim Lovell: [Still looking at the moon] Alright, we'll sell the house. They're back inside now, looking up at us. Isn't that something?

Marilyn Lovell: [Settles into a lawn chair] I'll bet Jenny Armstrong doesn't get a wink of sleep tonight. When you were on the far side on 8, I didn't sleep at all. I just vacuumed over and over again.

Jim Lovell: [narrating; [w:Apollo 16|Apollo 16] Our mission was called "a successful failure," in that we returned safely but never made it to the moon. In the following months, it was determined that a damaged coil built inside the oxygen tank sparked during our cryo stir and caused the explosion that crippled the Odyssey. It was a minor defect that occurred two years before I was even named the flight's commander. Fred Haise was going back to the moon on Apollo 18, but his mission was canceled because of budget cuts; he never flew in space again. Nor did Jack Swigert, who left the astronaut corps and was elected to Congress from the state of Colorado. But he died of cancer before he was able to take office. Ken Mattingly orbited the moon as Command Module Pilot of ], and flew the Space Shuttle, having never gotten the measles. Gene Kranz retired as Director of Flight Operations just not long ago. And many other members of Mission Control have gone on to other things, but some are still there. As for me, the seven extraordinary days of Apollo 13 were my last in space. I watched other men walk on the moon, and return safely, all from the confines of Mission Control and our house in Houston. 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?

Jim Lovell: Hello, Houston, this is Odyssey. It's good to see you again.

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

Jim Lovell: Houston, we are venting something out into space. I can see it outside window 1 right now. It's definitely, uh, a gas of some sort. It's got to be the oxygen.

Jim Lovell: [[w:AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes|American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations] * Note: ranked #50 in the ] in American cinema.

Jim Lovell: Houston, we have a problem.

Jim Lovell: [[w:Apollo 8|Apollo 8] 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. On ], we were so close. Just 60 nautical miles down, and it was as if I could just step out, and walk on the face of it.

Carabinieri Officer: Professor Langdon, I insist I must take you back to the Vatican.

Robert Langdon: The Vatican is about to see its fourth cardinal murdered tonight! Now, look. You can do as they say and force me to go back to the Vatican, where we can all mourn his death together, or you can show how real cops act, and take me to Piazza Navona, where we might still be able to stop it!

Robert Langdon: Oh, by all means, let's talk it over!

Robert Langdon: If you care at all about your church, you'll listen to me.

Commander Richter: My church? My church comforts the sick and dying. My church feeds the poor. What does your church do, Mr. Langdon? That's right. You don't have one.

Ernesto Olivetti: Where did you get that?

Vittoria Vetra: We borrowed it.

Ernesto Olivetti: You removed a document from the Vatican archives?

Robert Langdon: She did it.

Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Mr Langdon, you are correct that I may grant you access to the archives.

Robert Langdon: Thank you, Padre.

Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: I said that you are correct that I may, not-not that I will. Christianity's most sacred codices are in that archive. Given your recent entanglement with the church... there is a question I'd like to ask you first, here, in the office of His Holiness. Do you believe in God, Sir?

Robert Langdon: Father, I simply believe that religion......

Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: I did not ask you if you believe what man says about God. I asked you if you believe in God.

Robert Langdon: I'm an academic. My mind tells me I will never understand God.

Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: And your heart?

Robert Langdon: Tells me I'm not meant to. Faith is a gift that I have yet to receive.

Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Be delicate with our treasures.

Robert Langdon: Oh, yes. Pope Pius IX's Great Castration.

Ernesto Olivetti: I beg your pardon?

Robert Langdon: 1857. Pope Pius IX felt the male form would inspire lust, so he took a hammer and chisel and "un-manned" hundreds of these statues. The plaster fig leaves were added later.

Ernesto Olivetti: Are you Anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?

Robert Langdon: No. I'm anti-vandalism.