Dennis Quaid Quotes

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut.

Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

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.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch.

We are going to Mars. My life will not be complete until an astronaut sets foot on the red dust of Mars.

Most of us at least briefly considered answering, 'An astronaut,' when asked as children what we wanted to be when we grew up.

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

In 2009 I went up on the space shuttle. I was in space for 16 days and docked at the space station for 11 days. The entire crew did five space walks, of which I was involved with three of them. When you're doing a space walk, you always have a buddy with you. It's a very dangerous environment when you're doing a space walk.

From day one, I have been told I am no different from the male astronauts. As a pilot, I flew in the sky. Now that I am an astronaut, I will fly in space.

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.

I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

We got to the moon.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

I'd like to go to the Moon.