Wally Schirra Quotes in The Right Stuff (1983)
Wally Schirra Quotes:
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[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!
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Characters on The Right Stuff (1983)
- Chuck Yeager
- Jack Ridley
- Alan Shepard
- Gordon Cooper
- Chief Scientist
- Lyndon Johnson
- Henry Luce
- Gus Grissom
- Liaison Man
- Glennis Yeager
- Scott Carpenter
- John Glenn
- Annie Glenn
- Lady Bartender
- Eric Sevareid
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Pancho Barnes
- Frank Sharp (Texan)
- Nurse Murch
- Gonzalez
- Trudy Cooper
- Scott Crossfield
- Game Show MC
- Betty Grissom