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Silkwood Quotes

Silkwood is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Silkwood ended its run in 1970.

It features Michael Hausman as producer, Georges Delerue in charge of musical score, and Miroslav Ondříček as head of cinematography.

Silkwood is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Silkwood is 131 minutes long. Silkwood is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood, Bruce McGill as Mace Hurley, Diana Scarwid as Angela, Craig T. Nelson as Winston, Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens, Fred Ward as Morgan, Ron Silver as Paul Stone, Henderson Forsythe as Quincy Bissell, and E. Katherine Kerr as Gilda Schultz.

Silkwood Quotes

Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood

  • (Meryl Streep) "What's that?"
  • (Craig T. Nelson) "-- Well, what do you want with it?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "Mystery meat, hmm?"
  • (Craig T. Nelson) "There's no mystery."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I remember in high school her saying, 'Now what'd you want to take that science class for? There's no girls in that science class. You take home ec, why don't you? That's the way to meet the nice boys.' 'Mom,' I said, There ain't no boys in home ec. The boys are in the science class.' She hated when I said, 'Ain't.'"
  • (Meryl Streep) "My urine sample container. Somebody put plutonium in my urine sample container."
  • (Unnamed) "Name?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "Karen Silkwood."
  • (Kurt Russell) "Drew Stephens."
  • (Dolly Pelliker) "Dolly Pelliker."
  • (Meryl Streep) "What should I wear on the plane?"
  • (Diana Scarwid) "Uh, somethin' that won't wrinkle."
  • (Kurt Russell) "Yeah, like a shroud, maybe."
  • (Diana Scarwid) "I get sooooo tired of yer jokes --"
  • (Meryl Streep) "I work in metallography, and uh -- well, um, quite frequently we have negatives altered."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Morgan --. jesus you scared me."
  • (Fred Ward) "Had to."
  • (Meryl Streep) "-- I'm doin' somethin' good."
  • (Fred Ward) "I know what you're doing, and you're the wrong person to be doing it. It's dangerous -- that's all I'm going to say."
  • (Meryl Streep) "You think I contaminated myself, you think I did that?"
  • (Bruce McGill) "I think you'd do just about anything to shut down this plant."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I had 'em in the car -- I could've just driven away with 'em and headed straight for Oklahoma --"
  • (Kurt Russell) "What would you have done with them?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "-- I don't know --"

Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens

  • (Kurt Russell) "Sweetheart, it's like you're two people. I'm in love with one of them. But the other one is just --"
  • (Meryl Streep) "A real pain in the ass."
  • (Kurt Russell) "Make enough noise there, Dolly?"
  • (Dolly Pelliker) "You two ain't exactly a silent movie yourselves."
  • (Kurt Russell) "What are you doing here?"
  • (Craig T. Nelson) "Just looking around -- same as you."

Craig T. Nelson as Winston

  • (Craig T. Nelson) "These pills don't look like enemas to me."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Winston, do you know what these are? These are little tiny time capsules, like the ones you see on TV. They clear up your nasal passages for up to twelve -- hours straight --"
  • (Meryl Streep) "Excuse me."
  • (Craig T. Nelson) "God bless you."
  • (Craig T. Nelson) "It doesn't matter whether you work in plutonium or dog food because they ain't gonna give you a thing, there's nowhere left to go. You close this plant down and then what? You're gonna be up in Washington, but we're gonna be down here outta work. Your cancer's a maybe, that's all it is, a maybe --"

Fred Ward as Morgan

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Bruce McGill as Mace Hurley

  • (Bruce McGill) "We're getting a room for Dolly -- we can help you, we want to help you. We can help you with a place to stay, we can help you with money."
  • (Meryl Streep) "-- but first I have to sign somethin' right? Sayin' I did all this?"
  • (Bruce McGill) "Just in your own words what happened."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Okay -- uh, in my own words -- I'm contaminated -- I'm DYIN'."

Diana Scarwid as Angela

  • (Diana Scarwid) "They all look as though they died before they were dead."

E. Katherine Kerr as Gilda Schultz

  • (E. Katherine Kerr) "Karen, I LIKE MY JOB."

Ron Silver as Paul Stone

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