One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy: Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothing but complain about how you can't stand it in this place here and you don't have the guts just to walk out? What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy: But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy: Which one of you nuts has got any guts?

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[last lines]
Chief Bromden: Mac... they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac; I feel big as a damn mountain.
[he suddenly sees the lobotomy scars]
Chief Bromden: Oh, no...
Chief Bromden: [embracing McMurphy] I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't

leave you this way... You're coming with me.
Chief Bromden: [laying him down] Let's go.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy: Get out of my way son, you're usin' my oxygen.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Chief Bromden: Mmmmmm, Juicy Fruit.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy: Is that crazy enough for ya'? Want me to take a shit on the floor?

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy: [about shock treatments] They was giving me ten thousand watts a day, you know, and I'm hot to trot! The next woman takes me on's gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars!

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Chief Bromden: My pop was real big. He did like he pleased. That's why everybody worked on him. The last time I seen my father, he was blind and diseased from drinking. And every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he didn't suck out of it, it sucked out of him until he shrunk so wrinkled and yellow even the dogs didn't know him.
McMurphy: Killed him, huh?


Chief Bromden: I'm not saying they killed him. They just worked on him. The way they're working on you.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[McMurphy is pretending to watch the World Series on TV]
McMurphy: Someone get me a fucking wiener before I die.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy: She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don't think it's crazy at all and I don't think you do either. No man alive could

resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Harding: I'm not just talking about my wife, I'm talking about my LIFE, I can't seem to get that through to you. I'm not just talking about one person, I'm talking about everybody. I'm talking about form. I'm talking about content. I'm talking about interrelationships. I'm talking about God, the devil, Hell, Heaven. Do you understand... FINALLY?

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy: I'm a goddamn marvel of modern science.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Night Nurse: Mr. Turkle?
McMurphy: Where the fuck is he, why doesn't he answer her?
Taber: He's jerkin' off somewhere.
Orderly Turkle: Ain't no one jerkin' off nowhere muthafucker!
McMurphy: Turkle what the fuck are you doing in here? Go out and talk to her.
Orderly

Turkle: I'm doin' the same fuckin' thing your doin'- hidin'!

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Cheswick: Rules? PISS ON YOUR FUCKING RULES!

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy: I can't take it no more. I gotta get outta here.
Chief Bromden: I can't. I just can't.
McMurphy: It's easier than you think, Chief.
Chief Bromden: For you, maybe. You're a lot bigger than me.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[the inmates are playing cards and betting with cigarettes]
Martini: [rips a cigarette in half] I bet a nickel.
McMurphy: Dime's the limit, Martini.
Martini: I bet a dime.
[Puts the two halves onto the table]
McMurphy: This is not a dime, Martini. This is a dime.
[shows a whole cigarette]


McMurphy: If you break it in half, you don't get two nickels, you get shit. Try and smoke it. You understand?
Martini: Yes.
McMurphy: You don't understand.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Nurse Ratched: Aren't you ashamed?
Billy: No, I'm not.
[Applause from friends]
Nurse Ratched: You know Billy, what worries me is how your mother is going to take this.
Billy: Um, um, well, y-y-y-you d-d-d-don't have to t-t-t-tell her, Miss Ratched.
Nurse Ratched: I don't have to

tell her? Your mother and I are old friends. You know that.
Billy: P-p-p-please d-d-don't tell my m-m-m-mother.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy: In one week, I can put a bug so far up her ass, she don't know whether to shit or wind her wristwatch.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy: I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this.