Trivia and Quotes for Space Cowboys From www.imdb.com Trivia In the film, the four astronauts appear together on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". To promote the film, they all appeared together on the same show. The night scenes where Tommy Lee Jones and Marcia Gay Harden are alone together was filmed in the University of Houston - Downtown campus satellite parking lot; permission from the University of Houston - Downtown was needed to film the night scenes. Clint Eastwood met with UHD president Dr. Maximillian Castillo in late 1998 in person before filming began. Memorable Quotes Bob Gerson: I can't fill up a space shuttle with geriatrics! --------------------------------------------------------- Frank Corvin: Clock's ticking, Bob. And I'm only getting older. --------------------------------------------------------- Sara Holland: I have never met a kid who didn't dream of being an astronaut when he grew up. Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins: Did you ever meet a kid who didn't grow up? --------------------------------------------------------- Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins: What is a pancreas, anyhow? I mean, I don't know what the damn thing does for you, besides give you cancer. --------------------------------------------------------- Frank Corvin: Well, what do you say, Reverend? You think a prayer's in order? Tank Sullivan: I was just reciting the Shepard's Prayer. Alan Shepard's prayer. Please God, don't let us screw up. Amen. --------------------------------------------------------- [Nearly Getting Into A Bar fight With A Biker.] Biker: I'll Put You In The Hospital, Old Man. Frank Corvin: Yeah, well I've got MediCare, go ahead and shoot your best shot! --------------------------------------------------------- Barbara Corvin: Would you like me to read the instructions to you again? Frank Corvin: Let me tell you something, my dear. Those instructions were written by a fellow in Japan when they made this damn thing. They were probably translated by some gringo who was an ex-patriot American that couldn't get a job in this country. And then the Japanese guy probably translated him just to double check on him. You don't need these instructions. Not at all. Tear them up. --------------------------------------------------------- [Frank and Hawk are asking a waitress who she would prefer to 'take home'] Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins: Would you prefer this man, with his asymmetrical sagging ass-cheeks, his love-handles the size of Nebraska, and his oh-so-ugly in-grown toenail...? Frank Corvin: [interrupting] Or this son of a bitch with the chicken-gizzard neck and the face that looks like thirty miles of Death Valley fire trail? --------------------------------------------------------- Bob Gerson: Francis D. Corvin. Sara Holland: Is he dead? Bob Gerson: Only if I'm lucky. --------------------------------------------------------- Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins: Have you noticed how everybody seems to be dead lately? --------------------------------------------------------- Frank Corvin: This is Jerry O'Neill. Sara Holland: No nickname for you? Jerry O'Neill: You can call me [kisses her hand] Jerry O'Neill: anytime. --------------------------------------------------------- Jerry O'Neill: I'm an engineer! I stopped running when Nixon was president! --------------------------------------------------------- Frank Corvin: You know what the worst day of my life was? The day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. I was probably the only person in America who wanted to commit suicide that day. Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins: Well, thanks a lot Frank. We haven't spoken in twelve years and that's basically been the big question on my mind, what could make you commit suicide. --------------------------------------------------------- [The younger astronauts have given Team Daedalus some Ensure as a gag] Jerry O'Neill: I'd drink this. It's good for your libido. --------------------------------------------------------- Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins: What are you doing here? Frank Corvin: Keeping a promise I made years ago. Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins: Was that the promise you made to kill me or the promise you made to have both my legs broke? --------------------------------------------------------- [challenging Frank to fight] Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins: Okay, bad guy, we're taking this outside! I want to whip your asymmetrical sagging ass! Get out there in that parking lot! [Frank and Hawk step outside] Jerry O'Neill: Here we go again... Tank Sullivan: I've got ten on Frank! --------------------------------------------------------- [The crew are guests on the Tonight show.] Jay Leno: Now you all have military backgrounds....North or South? o - o