Marvin Hamlisch Quotes

We got to the moon.

The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.

If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

A space nerd as a kid, I learned early that putting a man on the moon took American unity, grit, determination, teamwork, hardship, innovation, sacrifice and patriotism.

As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

If you know you're supported, you're going to work harder, you're going to be more focused on your mission.

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.

No days off. I'm a workaholic.

Go to the moon - that's my dream.

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.

The Space Program is an investment of the nation’s future…. Humans will not be confined to this planet forever.

I'm sort of a workaholic.

The United States ended the space shuttle program in 2011, after the ISS was complete. We gave up a national treasure forever.

For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.

There is film of the Americans landing on the moon. Does that mean the moon shot really happened? In the film, the Yanqui flag is flying straight out. So, is there wind on the moon?

The first movie I did that was inspired by true events was 'Apollo 13.'