The Manhattan Project (1986)

Share this quote on facebook It's the purest plutonium in the universe. Pretty, isn't it?

Share this quote on facebook I just happen to have access to one of the sexiest lasers in the entire free world.

Share this quote on facebook Oh, what did you want us to do? Put up a neon sign that says 'Secret Weapons Laboratory'?

Share this quote on facebook You try to tough it out with them, they'll lock you in a room and throw away the room.

Share this quote on facebook [as they are about to disarm the bomb] Anybody want to make a bet?

Share this quote on facebook Hey, Mister, I betcha can't guess what I've got in this box. An atomic bomb.

Share this quote on facebook I never thought I'd say this to anyone, but I gotta go get the atomic bomb from out of the car.

Share this quote on facebook [after being drugged] Jenny. I love you, Jenny. I wanna be your wife.

Share this quote on facebook [to Matthewson] You are what you are, Doctor - a son of a bitch, like the rest of us. Now do what needs to be done.

Share this quote on facebook You mean I'm gonna die because some asshole didn't bring a pair of pliers?

Share this quote on facebook Student: [about Paul] What's the problem? Was he sexually abusing the hamsters or something?

Share this quote on facebook Scientist #1: [about Matthewson] He'd get the Nobel if he could publish.
Scientist #2: Publish?
Scientist #1: I said 'if'.

Share this quote on facebook Elizabeth: And you're interested in a one bedroom sublet, furnished? Any special requirements?
Matthewson: It should be quiet and in an English-speaking country.

Share this quote on facebook Jenny: A five-leaf clover. Where did you find it?
Paul: Growing outside that lab. You know the odds of that kind of mutation happening naturally, without chemicals or radiation or something?
Jenny: What?
Paul: There are none. I looked it up, it's like a billion to one. It never happens.
Jenny: Maybe you're just very lucky.
[Paul hands Jenny a mass of five-leaf clovers]
Jenny: Oh my God.

Share this quote on facebook Jenny: This isn't funny. Do you know what this is like? It's like when you read about, I don't know, Anne Frank or something and you say to yourself, Jesus why didn't they do something. The whole world is collapsing. They just sat around, life as usual, myabe it'll go away, but it never goes away it only gets worse and nobody thinks about the future. What's the matter?
Paul: Who's Anne Frank?
Jenny: Um, a girl in my English class.

Share this quote on facebook Jenny: If we get killed we won't have any future.
Paul: Of course we will. You always have a future.

Share this quote on facebook Scientist: [reading a lab report on the plutonium sample that Paul has replaced] Water, citric acid, sodium laureth sulfate, hydrolyzed animal protein, glycerin, USFDA coloring #5.
Matthewson: What the hell is it?
Scientist: It's shampoo.

Share this quote on facebook Matthewson: This is terrible, I feel like a perfect ass.
Elizabeth: Nobody's perfect.

Share this quote on facebook Eccles: I invented a way of using insects as a dietary supplement for humans. Beetles, ants, mosquitoes. You grind them up -- low cholesterol.
Jeffery: Shut up, Eccles. That's disgusting. My project is quite fascinating. I took six common toads and froze them in liquid nitrogen for six months.

Share this quote on facebook Matthewson: What do you think you're doing?
Paul: Well I thought we'd start out with kissing, and then we might move onto the fancy stuff.

Share this quote on facebook Jenny: Why are you doing this?
Moore: Because life, my dear, is more than just freezing toads.

Share this quote on facebook Elizabeth: Paul, did you build an atomic bomb?
Paul: Only a little one.

Share this quote on facebook Official: Sir, what about evacuation?
Lt. Colonel Conroy: Evacuation? Of who?
Official: The people.
Lt. Colonel Conroy: Oh, you mean New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Canada... those people?

Share this quote on facebook Paul Stevens' high school science project has gotten a little out of hand. He just built an atomic bomb. Now he's got 11 hours to make sure it doesn't work.

Share this quote on facebook The switch is set... The clock has started... Time's running out!