Jack Ridley Quotes in The Right Stuff (1983)

[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.

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... But you'd think the public'd know that they're just doing what monkeys have done...

Chuck Yeager: Monkeys? Think a monkey knows he's sitting on top of a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys, they know that, see? Well, I'll tell you somethin' - it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that's on TV. Ol' Gus, he did alright.

unknown: Is that a man?

Jack Ridley: You damn right it is.

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.

Jack Ridley: Put the spurs to her, Chuck.

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?

[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.