Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Boss Paul: That ditch is Boss Kean's ditch. And I told him that dirt in it's your dirt. What's your dirt doin' in his ditch?
Luke: I don't know, Boss.
Boss Paul: You better get in there and get it out, boy.

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Captain: Now, I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean sum-bitch.

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Dragline: Where'd the road go?
Luke: That's it. That's the end of it.
Convict: Man, there's still daylight.
Dragline: About two hours left.
Convict: What do we do now?
Luke: Nothin'.
Dragline: Oh Luke, you wild, beautiful thing. You crazy handful of nothin'.

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Dragline: He's a natural born world-shaker.

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

[Why he was cutting the heads off parking meters]
Luke: Small town, not much to do in the evenin'.

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Dragline: Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille.

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

[Discussing a new prisoner who has to spend the night in the box]
Dragline: He ain't in the box because of the joke played on him. He back-sassed a free man. They got their rules. We ain't got nothin' to do with that. Would probably have happened to him sooner or later anyway, a complainer like him. He gotta learn the rules the same as anybody else.

Luke: Yeah, them poor old bosses need all the help they can get.

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

[Dragline has repeatedly knocked Luke down during a boxing match]
Dragline: Stay down. You're beat.
Luke: You're gonna hafta kill me...
[struggles back to his feet]

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Arletta: Why, we always thought you was strong enough to carry it. Was we wrong?
Luke: I don't know. Well, things are just never the way they seem, Arletta, you know that. A man's just gotta go his own way.

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

[Moving through the crowd, all excited about the record breaking egg eating about to take place]
Dragline: Alright, stand back you pedestrians, this ain't no automobile accident.

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

The Girl: [Washing herself down while cleaning her car with her radio on loud to get the Prisoners attention]
Koko: God she don't know what she's doing.
Luke: Oh boy, she knows exactly what she's doing. She's driving us crazy, and loving every minute of it!

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

John: [Visiting hours are over and John Sr. gives Luke his banjo, last remaining possession, before leaving] Now there ain't nothing to come back for.

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Dog Boy: Look Cap'n, look what he done to Blue. He's dead, he's dead. he run himself plum to death.

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Dragline: [Dragline attacks Boss Godfrey after fatally shooting Luke. The other prison guards subdue him to the ground. Sobbing and sitting against a car Dragline tells Luke...] You hang on in there Luke. You hang on. There's gonna be some world-shakin' Luke. We gonna send you a postcard.