Sophie's Choice (film) Quotes

Sophie's Choice (film) is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Sophie's Choice stopped airing in 1970.

It features Alan J. Pakula, Keith Barish, William C. Gerrity, and Martin Starger as producer, Marvin Hamlisch in charge of musical score, and Néstor Almendros as head of cinematography.

Sophie's Choice (film) is recorded in English, Polish, and German and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Sophie's Choice (film) is 151 minutes long. Sophie's Choice (film) is distributed by Universal Studios.

The cast includes: Meryl Streep as Sophie, Peter MacNicol as Stingo, and Kevin Kline as Nathan Landau.

Sophie's Choice (film) Quotes

Kevin Kline as Nathan Landau

• (Kevin Kline) "You spent the whole f***ing afternoon with him, or should I say, you spent the whole afternoon f***ing him."

• (Kevin Kline) "On this bridge on which so many great Americans writers stood and reached out for words to give America its voice -- looking toward the land that gave them Whitman -- from its Eastern edge dreamt his country's future and gave it words -- on this span of which Thomas Wolfe and Hart Crane wrote, we welcome Stingo into that pantheon of the Gods -- whose words are all we know of immortality. To Stingo."

• (Kevin Kline) "But I'm a biologist"
• (Meryl Streep) "Yeah --"

• (Kevin Kline) "To Stingo."

• (Kevin Kline) "This toast is in honor of my disassociation of you two creeps. Disassociation from you, coony captive c*** of king's county. And you, the dreary dregs of dixie."

• (Kevin Kline) "Don't you see, Sophie? We're dying."

Meryl Streep as Sophie

• (Meryl Streep) "My mother, she's very sick, you know. And I can't do anything. But I think; if only I could have got; that meat for my mother it would make her strong. So I go to the country and er -- the peasants were selling ham and I buy it with the black market money and I bring it back. But it's forbidden, you know, because all the meat goes to the Germans. So I sat on the train and I hid it under my skirt, I am pretending that I am pregnant, you know? Oh I was so afraid. I was shaking. And then the German, was in front of the train and he saw me. So he come over and take under my skirt that ham and --"
• (Meryl Streep) "So they sent me Auschwitz."
• (Peter MacNicol) "You were sent to Auschwitz because you stole a ham?"
• (Meryl Streep) "No, I was sent to Auschwitz because they saw that I was afraid."

• (Meryl Streep) "Yeah umm it looked like something that the -- the scares the birds -- you know -- what is that -- umm scur -- scrul -- I had scurbutt."
• (Kevin Kline) "No, no, no she means scurvy."
• (Meryl Streep) "Yeah --"
• (Kevin Kline) "And typhus, and anemia and scarlet fever --"
• (Meryl Streep) "Yeah --"
• (Kevin Kline) "Was f***ing miracle that she emerged from that camp alive."
• (Meryl Streep) "Right."

• (Meryl Streep) "Mmm. You know, when you -- when you live a good life -- like a saint -- and then you die, that must be what they make you to drink in paradise."

• (Unnamed) "You're so beautiful. I'd like to get you in bed. Are you a Polack? You. Are you also one of those filthy communists?"
• (Meryl Streep) "I am a Pole. I was born in Cracow. I am not a Jew. Neither are my children. They're not Jews. They are racially pure. I am a Christian. I am a devout Christian."
• (Unnamed) "You are not a communist? You are a believer?"
• (Meryl Streep) "Yes sir, I believe in Christ."
• (Unnamed) "You believe in Christ the redeemer?"
• (Meryl Streep) "Yes."
• (Unnamed) "Did He not say -- "Suffer the children, come unto me?""
• (Unnamed) "You may keep one of your children."
• (Meryl Streep) "I beg your pardon?"
• (Unnamed) "You may keep one of your children. The other must go away."
• (Meryl Streep) "You mean, I have to choose?"
• (Unnamed) "You are a Polack, not a Yid. That gives you a privilege, a choice."
• (Meryl Streep) "I can't choose. I can't choose."
• (Unnamed) "Be quiet."
• (Meryl Streep) "I can't choose."
• (Unnamed) "Make a choice. Or I'll send both of them over there. Make a choice."
• (Meryl Streep) "Don't make me choose. I can't."
• (Unnamed) "Shut up. Enough. I'll send them both over there. I told you to shut up. Make a choice."
• (Meryl Streep) "I can't choose. Please. I can't choose."
• (Unnamed) "Take BOTH children away."
• (Meryl Streep) "Take my little girl. Take my baby."

• (Meryl Streep) "Stingo, you look -- you look very nice, you're wearing your cocksucker."
• (Peter MacNicol) "That's my "seersucker.""

Peter MacNicol as Stingo

• (Peter MacNicol) "Leslie Lapidus could say f***, but she could not do it."

• (Peter MacNicol) "I let go the rage and sorrow for Sophie and Nathan -- and for the many others who were but a few of the butchered and betrayed and martyred children of the Earth. When I could finally see again, I saw the first rays of daylight reflected in the murky river. This was not judgment day. Only morning; morning, excellent and fair."

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