One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

McMurphy

• Which one of you nuts has got any guts?

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

• [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!

• Who's the head bull-goose loony around here?

• 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's being crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it.

• I'm a goddamn marvel of modern science.

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

• 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.

• Why don't ya shut your goddamn mouth and play some music.

• That's right, Mr. Martini. There is an Easter Bunny.

Dr. Spivey: Well, the real reason that you've been sent over here is because they wanted you to be evaluated... to determine whether or not you are mentally ill. This is the real reason.

McMurphy: Well, as near as I can figure out, it's 'cause I, uh, fight and fuck too much.

[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.

Nurse Pilbow: Don't get upset, Mr. McMurphy.

McMurphy: I'm not getting upset, Nurse Pilbow. I just don't want anyone to slip me salt peter!

McMurphy: We're just having a little party.

Orderly Turkle: Party my ass this ain't no nightclub!

Others

Cheswick: Rules? Piss on your Fucking Rules!

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Chief Bromden: Mmmmm, Juicey Fruit.

Cast

- Randle Patrick McMurphy

- Nurse Mildred Ratched

- Harding

- Ellis (tall bald patient)

- Martini

- Orderly Turkle

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