“The government can spend all kinds of money teaching you how to be a fearless test pilot, but they don't spend a god-damned thing teaching you how to be the fearless wife of a fearless test pilot.”
Barbara Hershey - Glennis Yeager

“Don't worry. Nobody dies in this story. They just get really big boo-boos.”
Keith Scott - The Narrator

“You get to do what you want. Nobody fucks with you. The only worry you got is dying. And if that happens, you won't know about it anyway.”

Kevin Dillon - Bunny

- Barbara: "Rule number two: the living usually won't see the dead".
- Adam: Won't or can't?
- Barbara: It just says "won't". God, this book is so stupid. I can't understand anything in it.
- Adam: Barb, honey... we're dead. I don't think we have very much to worry about anymore.

Geena Davis - Barbara
Alec Baldwin - Adam

“In a shark attack, or any other major tragedy, I guess the important thing is to get eaten and die, in which case there's a funeral and somebody makes a speech and everybody says what a good guy you were. Or get better, in which case everyone can forget about it. Get better or die. It's the hanging around in between that really pisses people off.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Richard