Best Movie Quotes From Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer is being hailed as the movie of the year, and rightly so. There are some incredible moments happening in this movie by Christopher Nolan. The dialogue is just as important as the visuals. Here are the best movie quotes from Oppenheimer you may want to revisit.

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About Oppenheimer

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.

The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin.

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Best Movie Quotes From Oppenheimer (2023)

I’m not trained in anything. I’m a self-made man. – Strauss movie quotes from Oppenheimer
God doesn’t play dice. – Strauss
Why would I be worried after everything you’ve done for your country? – Strauss
Dutch in 6 weeks but you never learned Yiddish? – Rabi
Theory will only take us so far. – Lawrence
See where the math takes us. – Oppenheimer
This is America Oppie. We already had our revolution. – Lawrence
The bigger the star the more concentrated it’s Denise. – Oppenheimer movie quotes from Oppenheimer
Why limit yourself to one dogma? – Oppenheimer
I tried to poison my tutor. – Oppenheimer
You hated him? -Jean
I liked him very much. – Oppenheimer
You just needed to get laid. – Jean

I’m your brother Frank and I want you to be cautious. – Oppenheimer
Gravity swallows light. -Oppenheimer
If I could find a way to combine physics and New Mexico life would be perfect. – Oppenheimer
What are we all thinking? – Alvarez
A bomb, Alvarez. A bomb. – Oppenheimer
The world will remember this day. – Alvarez
It won’t make a bit of difference. – Kitty
Ideology got himself killed for nothing. – Kitty
All of it. It’s mostly empty space. – Oppenheimer
Brilliance makes up for a lot. – Oppenheimer
It’s not your people they’re herding into camps. It’s mine. -Oppenheimer
You’re not just self-important you’re actually important. – Lawrence movie quotes from Oppenheimer
He wasn’t always patient with us mere mortals. – Strauss
What can I tell them? -Oppenheimer
As much as you like. Until you feel my boot on your balls. -Groves

I’d hate to see how you treat a humble physicist. -Oppenheimer
If I ever meet one I’ll let you know. -Groves
We’ve got one hope. Antisemitism. – Oppenheimer
I don’t take anything on trust. – General Groves movie quotes from Oppenheimer
You don’t get to say no to me. – Groves
“Oppenheimer couldn’t run a hamburger stand.” – Groves
I couldn’t. But I can run the Manhattan Project. – Oppenheimer
I don’t know if we can be trusted with such a weapon. But I know the Nazis can’t. We have no choice. – Oppenheimer
If we don’t let scientists bring their families, we’ll never get the best. – Oppenheimer
If you want security, build a town and build it fast. – Oppenheimer
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. – Oppenheimer
Tell Groves to go shit in his hat. Be yourself. Only better. – Rabi
As colleagues, we disagreed on many things. One of them being the need for an H-bomb program. – Strauss

It may not be your fault but it’s your problem. – Oppenheimer
The Russians have a bomb. We’re supposed to be years ahead of them. – Strauss
Compartmentalization was supposed to be the protocol. – Nichols
The world is changing, reforming. This is your moment. – Kitty Oppenheimer movie quotes from Oppenheimer
This is a national emergency. – Oppenheimer
They need us. -Oppenheimer
Until they don’t. – Teller
That would be treason. – Oppenheimer
They don’t know scientists like I know scientists. – Strauss movie quotes from Oppenheimer
Robert built that place. He was founder, mayor, sheriff. All rolled into one. – Strauss
They just fired the starting gun. – Strauss
Build them a town. Fast. – Groves
Let’s go recruit some scientists.- Groves
How about because this is the most important fucking thing to ever happen in the history of the world! – Groves

Sorry general I said I understood not that I agree. – Lawrence
You’re the greatest improviser. But this you can’t do in your head. – Rabi
There is no proof there was a spy at Los Alamos. – Oppenheimer
You can convince anyone with anything. Even yourself.
You have just the rights that I give you. No more. No less. – Groves movie quotes from Oppenheimer
We’ll have him killed. Just kidding. He hates me not America. – Groves
You drop in and out of my life. That’s power. – Jean
You sit there day after day letting them take our lives apart. Why won’t you fight? – Kitty
I am not here to help Robert. I knew you could do this without me. -Neils Bohr movie quotes from Oppenheimer
It’s not a new weapon. It’s a new world. – Neils
You don’t get to commit sin and then ask all of us to feel sorry for you when they’re consequences. -Kitty
And no one is leaving Los Alamos. – Oppenheimer
Just because we’re building it doesn’t mean we get to say how it gets used. – Oppenheimer
I took Kyoto off the list. My wife and I honeymooned there.
Are those safe distances? -Hans
They’re based upon your calculations. -Oppenheimer
Are we saying there’s a chance that when we push that button, we destroy the world? – Groves
Chances are near zero. -Oppenheimer
Is anyone ever going to tell the truth about what’s happening here? –
Would the Japanese surrender if they knew what was coming? – Edward
They won’t fear it until they understand it. And they won’t understand it until they’ve used it. – Oppenheimer

Apparently, it went with a tremendous bang. – Groves
The world will remember this date. – Oppenheimer
It’s too soon to tell what the results of this bombing are but I’ll bet the Japanese didn’t like it. – Oppenheimer
I hear you’re leaving Los Alamo’s. What should we do with it? -Truman movie quotes from Oppenheimer
Give it back to the Indians. -Oppenheimer
Mr. President, I feel I have blood on my hands. -Oppenheimer
They cared who dropped it. I did. Hiroshima isn’t about you. – Truman
It made him the most important man who ever lived. – Strauss
Wake up. It is Strauss. It’s always been Strauss and you know it. Why won’t you fight him? – Kitty
We’re not convicting. We’re just denying. – Strauss
Is anyone going to tell the truth about what is happening here? – Oppenheimer
Do people need a reason to do the right thing? – Aide
It made him the most important man who ever lived. – Strauss
You are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves, and the world is not prepared. -Niels
If we did it they would have to do it. – Oppenheimer
Did you think that if you let them tar and feather you the world would forgive you? – Kitty
I believe we did. -Oppenheimer movie quotes from Oppenheimer

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