"You have to think like an American. You'll feel so homesick that you'll want to die, and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it. But you will, and it won't kill you. And one day, the sun will come out you might not even notice straight away-it'll be that faint. And then you'll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past. Someone who's only yours.And you'll realize that this is where your life is."

"Jenn Murray - Dolores Grace"

"Bríd Brennan - Miss Kelly"

"Jim Broadbent - Father Flood"

"You're the prettiest girl in County Wexford. You should be able to choose any man you want. And we're hoping that George Sheridan from the rugby club looks your way."

"Diana's right, though, Eilis. You need to think carefully about your costume. It's the most Tony will ever have seen of you. You don't want to put him off."

"Georgina: Try and remember that sometimes it's nice to meet people who don't know your auntie."

"I'll thank you to keep His name out of a conversation about nylons, thank you very much. He might be everywhere, but He's not in Bartocci's on sale day."

"Jessica Paré - Miss Fortini"

"Eileen O'Higgins - Nancy"

"Eve Macklin - Diana Montini"

"Fiona Glascott - Rose Lacey"

"Michael Zegen - Maurizio Fiorello"

"Diner Waiter: I hope that when I go through the pearly gates, the first sound I hear is you asking me for the bill in that lovely Irish brogue."

"I'd forgotten what this town is like. What were you planning to do, Miss Kelly? Keep me away from Jim? Stop me from going back to America? Perhaps you didn't even know. Perhaps it was enough for you to know that you could ruin me. My name is Eilis Fiorello."

"I'll tell you this much: I am going to ask Father Flood to preach a sermon on the dangers of giddiness. I now see that giddiness is the eighth deadly sin. A giddy girl is every bit as evil as a slothful man, and the noise she makes is a lot worse. Now, enough."

"Julie Walters - Madge Kehoe"

"Emory Cohen - Anthony "Tony" Fiorello"

"Domhnall Gleeson - Jim Farrell"

"Saoirse Ronan - Eilis Lacey"

"Christopher Meloni - Leo Durocher"

"Harrison Ford - Branch Rickey"

"Brett Cullen - Clay Hopper"

"T. R. Knight - Harold Parrott"

"Ryan Merriman - Dixie Walker"

"Chadwick Boseman - Jackie Robinson"

"Lucas Black - Pee Wee Reese"

"Andre Holland - Wendell Smith"

"Alan Tudyk - Ben Chapman"

"Nicole Behaire - Rachel Isum Robinson"

"In a game divided by color, he made us see greatness."

"Jeremy Ray Taylor - Boy"

"Linc Hand - Fritz Ostermueller"

"Jesse Kuken - Eddie Stanky"

"Brad Beyer - Kirby Higbe"

"Max Gail - Burt Shotton"

"C. J. Nitkowski - Dutch Leonard"

"Hamish Linklater - Ralph Branca"

"Peter Mackenzie - Happy Chandler"

"John C. McGinley - Red Barber"

"Peter MacNicol as Stingo"

"Rita Karin as Yetta Zimmerman"

"Stephen D. Newman as Larry Landau"

"Josh Mostel as Morris Fink"

"Sometimes when you've read the novel, it gets in the way of the images on the screen. You keep remembering how you imagined things. That didn't happen with me during Sophie's Choice, because the movie is so perfectly cast and well-imagined that it just takes over and happens to you. It's quite an experience. … The movie, like the book, is told with two narrators. One is Stingo, who remembers these people from that summer in Brooklyn, and who also remembers himself at that much earlier age. The other narrator, contained within Stingo's story, is Sophie herself, who remembers what happened to her during World War II, and shares her memories with Stingo in a long confessional. Both the book and the movie have long central flashbacks, and neither the book nor the movie is damaged by those diversions, because Sophie's story is so indispensable to Stingo's own growth, from an adolescent dreamer to an artist who can begin to understand human suffering."

"We almost don't notice, at first, as Stingo's odyssey into adulthood is replaced, in the film, by Sophie's journey back into the painful memories of her past. The movie becomes an act of discovery, as the naive young American, his mind filled with notions of love, death, and honor, becomes the friend of a woman who has seen so much hate, death, and dishonor that the only way she can continue is by blotting out the past, and drinking and loving her way into temporary oblivion. … Sophie's Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie. It is about three people who are faced with a series of choices, some frivolous, some tragic. As they flounder in the bewilderment of being human in an age of madness, they become our friends, and we love them."

"Meryl Streep as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowska"

"Kevin Kline as Nathan Landau"