Marilyn Lovell Quotes in Apollo 13 (1995)

Marilyn Lovell: Blanche, Blanche, these nice young men are going to watch the television with you. This is Neil Armstrong, and this is Buzz... Aldrin.

Neil Armstrong: Hi.

Blanche Lovell: Are you boys in the space program too?

Henry Hurt: I, uh, I have a request from the news people.

Marilyn Lovell: Uh-huh?

Henry Hurt: They're out front here. They want to put a transmitter up on the lawn.

Marilyn Lovell: Transmitter?

Henry Hurt: Kind of a tower, for live broadcast.

Marilyn Lovell: I thought they didn't care about this mission. They didn't even run Jim's show.

Henry Hurt: Well, it's more dramatic now. Suddenly people are...

Marilyn Lovell: Landing on the moon wasn't dramatic enough for them - why should NOT landing on it be?

Henry Hurt: Look, I, um, I realize how hard this is, Marilyn, but the whole world is caught up in this, it's historic-...

Marilyn Lovell: No, Henry! Those people don't put one piece of equipment on my lawn. If they have a problem with that, they can take it up with my husband. He'll be HOME... on FRIDAY!

Marilyn Lovell: Naturally, it's 13. Why 13?

Jim Lovell: It comes after 12, hon.

Marilyn Lovell: Jeffrey?

Jeffrey Lovell: Why are so many people here?

Marilyn Lovell: Well, you know, your dad's flying his mission.

Jeffrey Lovell: He said he was going to get me a moon rock.

Marilyn Lovell: Right. Well, something broke on your daddy's spaceship. And he's going to have to turn around before he even gets to the moon.

Jeffrey Lovell: Was it the door?

Marilyn Lovell: [none of the TV networks are showing Apollo 13's TV broadcast] Do they know they're not on the air?

Henry Hurt: We'll tell them when they get back.

[Jim's daughter wants to go trick-or-treating as a hippie]

Barbara Lovell: Dad, can I please wear this?

Jim Lovell: Sure.

Marilyn Lovell: Jim!

Jim Lovell: No! No, absolutely not.

Marilyn Lovell: [Barbara has locked herself in her room] Barbara!

[Knocks on the door]

Marilyn Lovell: Barbara, we're going to hear your father's broadcast!

Barbara Lovell: No! I'm never coming out! I hate Paul! None of us are ever going to play another one of their records again!

Susan Lovell: She's still going on about the stupid Beatles breaking up?

Barbara Lovell: They're not stupid, *you're* stupid!

Marilyn Lovell: I can't deal with cleaning up. Let's sell the house.

Marilyn Lovell: [Jim is standing outside, looking up at the moon, covering and uncovering it with his thumb. Marilyn comes out with a garbage bag] You're drunk, Lovell.

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

Marilyn Lovell: Me neither...

[She picks at a few glasses on a table, then drops the bag in exasperation]

Marilyn Lovell: I can't deal with cleaning up, let's sell the house.

Jim Lovell: All right, we'll sell the house.

[Still looking up at the moon]

Jim Lovell: 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.