Buzz Lloyd Quotes in Marooned (1969)

Clayton Stone: Jesus, fifty-five minutes... We'll be pretty cold by then.

Buzz Lloyd: Well, one of us's gonna have to go. I mean uh... that's what we're talkin' about, isnt it? One of us goes and the... other two stay. What... what are we gonna do?

Clayton Stone: Alright look. Let's do this scientifically: two big guys throw the little guy out, okay?

Buzz Lloyd: [after being asked by Stone what he saw when a psychologist held up a blank sheet of paper during his astronaut acceptance boards] I saw a field covered with snow. And underneath was new oats. Then the snow melted and the field turned to green. But the psychologist said I was all wrong, it was just a blank sheet of paper.

Clayton Stone: He took you anyway?

Buzz Lloyd: Yeah, I guess they made a mistake.

Clayton Stone: No, no, they don't make mistakes.

Buzz Lloyd: That's right, I forgot. They don't make mistakes do they?

[the entire crew begins to laugh at the irony]

Jim Pruett: Okay Buzz you're right. To hell with waiting for a bunch of slide-rule jockeys. We used to fix the airplanes we flew with paperclips. Lets get into our hard suits and fix this bird.

Buzz Lloyd: [smiling] Okay Jimmy.