One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Quotes

Nurse Ratched Aren't you ]?

Billy No, I'm not.

Nurse Ratched You know, Billy, what worries me is how your ]'s 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.

Dr. Spivey It said you've been belligerent, talked when unauthorized, been resentful in attitude toward work—in general, that you're lazy.

McMurphy Chewing gum in class. Ha-ha.

Dr. Spivey Well, the real reason that you've been sent over here is because they wanted you evaluated to determine whether or not you're mentally ill. This is the real reason. Why do you think they might think that?

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

Dr. Spivey In the penitentiary?

McMurphy No, no!

Dr. Spivey Well, you've had five prior arrests for assault.

McMurphy Five fights, huh? ]'s got forty and he's a millionaire.

Randle McMurphy You're just a young kid. What are you doin here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why – bird-doggin chicks and bangin beaver! What are ya doin here, for ]'s sake? What's funny about that? ], I mean, you guys do nothin but complain about how you can't stand it in this place here and then you haven't got the guts just to walk out!

Randle McMurphy ], I must be ] to be in a loony-bin like this.

Randle McMurphy I'm here to cooperate with ya a hundred percent. A hundred percent. I'll be just right down the line with ya, you watch. Cause I think we ought to get to the bottom of R. P. McMurphy.

Nurse Ratched If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way.

Randle McMurphy But I tried, didn't I? Goddammit, at least I did that.

Dr. Spivey The funny thing is that the person that he's the closest to is the one he dislikes the most — that's you, Mildred.

Nurse Ratched Well, gentlemen, in my opinion, if we send him back to Pendleton or we send him up to Disturbed, it's just one more way of passing on our problems to somebody else. You know we don't like to do that, so I'd like to keep him on the ward. I think we can help him.

Nurse Ratched Mr. Cheswick, you sit down!

Randle McMurphy But Doc, she was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and, uh, she told me she was eighteen and she was, uh, very willing, you know what I mean...I practically had to take to sewin my pants shut. But, uh between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of ya, I don't think it's crazy at all now 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 bein crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it.

Chief Bromden My pop was real big. He did like he pleased. That's why everybody ] on him. The last time I seen my father, he was blind in the cedars from ]. And every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he don't suck out of it, it sucks 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 ] him. They just worked on him. The way they're working on you.

Randle McMurphy How about it? You creeps, you lunatics, mental defectives. Let's hear it for Bull Goose Randle back in action...You ding-a-lings. The Mental Defective League, in formation.

Randle McMurphy They, uh, was givin me 10,000 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!

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. Mac? ] scars on McMurphy] Oh, no. I'm not going without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.

Charlie Cheswick I want my cigarettes! Miss Ratched!

Charlie Cheswick Rules?! PISS ON YOUR FUCKING RULES, MISS RATCHED!!

McMurphy What do you think you are, for Christ's sake, crazy or something? Well, you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walking around on the streets and that's it!

Nurse Ratched Those are very challenging observations you made, Randle.

McMurphy You fooled em, Chief! You fooled em. You fooled em all. Goddamn. What are we doin here Chief? Huh? What's us two guys doin in this fuckin place? Let's get out of here. Out!

Chief Bromden ].

McMurphy Canada. I'll be there before these sons-of-bitches know what hit em. Listen to Randle on this one.

Randle McMurphy You wanna bet? One week. I bet in one week, I can put a bug so far up her ass she won't know whether to shit or wind her wristwatch.

McMurphy Well, that fuckin nurse, man... she, uh, she ain't honest.

Dr. Spivey Aw now, look. Miss Ratched's one of the finest nurses we've got in this institution.

McMurphy Ha! Well I don't wanna break up the meeting or nothin', but she's somethin of a cunt, ain't she, Doc?

Dr. Spivey How do you mean that?

McMurphy She likes a rigged game, you know what I mean?