Gus Grissom Quotes in The Right Stuff (1983)

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  • Henry Luce: Now, I want them all to meet my people who will write their true stories, Naturally these stories will appear in Life magazine under their own bylines: For example, "by Betty Grissom", or "by Virgil I. Grisson", or...

    Gus Grissom: Gus!

    Henry Luce: What was that?

    Gus Grissom: Gus. Nobody calls me by... that other name.

    Henry Luce: Gus? An astronaut named "Gus"? What's your middle name?

    Gus Grissom: Ivan.

    Henry Luce: Ivan... ahem... well. Maybe, Gus isn't so bad, might be something there... All right, all right. You can be Gus.

  • [an argument rages, primarily between Shepard, Glenn, Carpenter and Cooper]

    Scott Carpenter: John's right! Now, whether we like it or not, we're 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 he's doing when he's not flying!

    [Argument continues]

    Gus Grissom: Wait a minute, wait a minute!

    [turns Glenn toward him]

    Gus Grissom: You've got it all wrong, the issue here ain't pussy. The issue here is monkey.

    John Glenn: What?

    Gus Grissom: Us. We are the monkey.

    Deke Slayton: What Gus is saying is that we're 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 they're gonna send a monkey up to do a man's work. But what Gus is saying is that what they're trying to do to us is send a man up to do a monkey's work. Us, a bunch of college-trained chimpanzees!

    Gus Grissom: Fuckin' A, bubba.

    Deke Slayton: Alright, so what Gus is saying is that we've got to change things around here. He's 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 we've got to stick together on this deal.

  • 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 won't anyone believe me?

  • [the Mercury Seven walk through the space center after the response to Yuri Gagarin's space shot]

    John Glenn: I'm tired of being forthright, gracious and magnanimous.

    Gordon Cooper: Yeah.

    John Glenn: I'm tired of these stupid questions from the press.

    Gordon Cooper: mm-hmm

    John Glenn: I'm tired of smocks, I'm tired of engineers telling us what we can't do, I'm tired of everybody that says we are not pilots!

    Gordon Cooper: You tell 'em, John.

    John Glenn: I'm 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 it's about time we...

    Wally Schirra: got someone up there!

    [the others voice their approval]

    John Glenn: Let's f-f-f...

    Gus Grissom: Fuckin' A, bubba.

    John Glenn: That's right! Exactly!

  • Gus Grissom: How ya doin', miss?

    Lady Bartender: So-so. How you doin'?

    Gus Grissom: I'm not doin' it any more. The damn thing's draggin' in the mud and I can't get it up.

  • Gordon Cooper: You boys know what makes this bird go up? FUNDING makes this bird go up.

    Gus Grissom: He's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.

  • [repeated line]

    Gus Grissom: Fuckin' A, bubba.

  • 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 Gordo's time] Congratulations, Scott. Darn good.

    Scott Carpenter: [shaking Glenn's hand] You were probably just getting warmed up, John. Next time I doubt I'll be the one to win.

    Gus Grissom: [to Gordo] You hear that? We were competing with Archie and Jughead

  • Gus Grissom: [listening to the NASA recruiter] Say, Hot Dog; what the hell does "astronaut" mean, anyway?

    Gordon Cooper: [thinks for a moment] "Star Voyager"

    Gus Grissom: "Star Voyager" Gus Grissom. I kinda like the sound of that.

  • Gus Grissom: Hey, didja hear that? We're competing with Archie and Jughead!

  • Gordon Cooper: You know something, Gus? I got me a new house, new furniture. Got me $25,000 a year on a magazine contract. Got me a Corvette. Got free lunch from one end of America to the other - and I ain't even been up there yet.

    Gus Grissom: Yeah, I noticed that.

    Gordon Cooper: Oh, you noticed that, did you? Well I guess they're just saving the best for last.

    Gus Grissom: Yeah, I guess so, Hot Dog. Just be sure you don't screw the pooch.

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