This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it.

At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.

The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.

Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.

Dave! Relax! Close your buttcheeks!

I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.

Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them!

And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.

I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.