Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)

Paul Newman: General Leslie R. Groves

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• Gen. Leslie R. Groves : It's all about ass, isn't it? Either you kick it... or you lick it.

• Gen. Leslie R. Groves : I want three stories. The first, if we succeed. The second, if we fail. The third, if we disintegrate.

• Gen. Leslie R. Groves : Gotta come down out of the clouds gentlemen, and get into the business... of winning the war.

• Gen. Leslie R. Groves : We could give this country the biggest stick in the playground, and I intend to do that.

• Gen. Leslie R. Groves : It's delicate stuff. I'm talking about my longhairs, my prima donnas. Jewish element. Take Hitler out of the equation, they might just run out of stink. Why chance it?

• Gen. Leslie R. Groves : I need him to come through on this. He owes it to his country. He owes it to himself. He is the best there is, and he should have whatever he wants.

  Kitty Oppenheimer : Don't try to recruit me, General. You don't need my help. And spare me your homily on being a good wife--I know it by heart.

  Gen. Leslie R. Groves : Why did you put up with her for so long?

  Kitty Oppenheimer : Because he's the best there is... and he should have whatever he wants!

• Gen. Leslie R. Groves : Where is he?

  Kitty Oppenheimer : He's out back... sitting in the sun with a blanket in his lap. Nursing a guilty dick, no doubt.

  Gen. Leslie R. Groves : It is not necessary to be vulgar.

  Kitty Oppenheimer : Nothing I say could approach the vulgarity of what you're building in your backyard.