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Which character in "Apollo 13" said...

So you think you are a fan of "Apollo 13." Let's see how well you know it. Match the following lines with the characters that spoke them. Can you get them all right?

  1. He's the kind of guy they say has a girl in every port, he has that reputation. I think he may be kind of foolishly optimistic though, taking nylons and Hershey bars to the moon ...

  2. I don't care about what anything was DESIGNED to do, I care about what it CAN do.

  3. [looking at the fogged-up instrument panels] It's like tryin' to drive a toaster through a car wash.

  4. I suggest you gentlemen invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole. Rapidly.

  5. From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it's not a miracle, we just decided to go.

  6. We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.

  7. Let's work the problem people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.

  8. Well don't you worry, honey. If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it.

  9. Houston, we have a problem. Note: ranked #50 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. In real life, the quote was "Houston, we've had a problem." Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, ch. 13.1, by James A. Lovell. The original phrase pronounced by Jack Swigert, "Houston, we've had a problem here" and then repeated by Lovell, "Houston, we've had a problem", was altered to a present-tense in the film script.