Colin Firth Quotes

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances.

If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'

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

I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.

A lot of people in America don't know me, and that's something I have to overcome.

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

Eventually we're going to go to Mars, and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket.

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

Obviously I'd like NASA to follow their charter - the exploration of our solar system and beyond. I'd like to see people someday go to Mars.

The exploration of space: Be it by humans or robots, based on the best choice for the mission and the most efficient means to return the data and science sought. Most of the time, this will mean we send robots due to cost and danger. But sometimes, we will need the irreplaceable judgment and descriptive abilities of a person on the spot.

I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.

A lot of people remember me from Star Trek. They've all forgotten all the other things I've done. I was so identified with the role.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.