Dragline Boy, you're new meat. You're gonna have to shape up fast and hard for this gang. We got rules here. In order to learn 'em, you gotta do more work with your ears than with your mouth.
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7 quotes Dragline Dragline Move over. I'm gonna sit in here next to my boy - Cool Hand Luke.
Dragline I don't know whether to smile, spit, or swallow.
Dragline All right. Stand back you pedestrians, this ain't no automobile accident.
Dragline Just nine more between you and everlastin' glory...Just little ol' eggs. They pigeon eggs, that's all.
Dragline [after receiving a postcard from an escaped Luke]
Look at that! My baby. We're in here diggin' and dyin'. He's out there livin' and flyin'.
Dragline That's my darling Luke. He grins like a baby but bites like a gator.
Scenes with Dragline
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You don't have a name here until Dragline gives you one.
Dragline [About Luke]
Maybe we ought to call it No Ears. [To Luke] You don't listen much, do ya, boy?
I ain't heard that much worth listenin' to. There's a lot of guys layin' down a lot of rules and regulations.
Dragline Tearin' the heads off of, what was it, gumball machines? What kind of thing is that for a grown man?
Luke: Well, you know how it is. Small town. Not much to do in evenin[Insert a stage direction]. Mostly was just settlin' an old score.
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.
Yeah, them poor old Bosses need all the help they can get.
Dragline You tryin' to say somethin'? You got a flappin' mouth. One of these days, I'm gonna have to flap me up some dust with it.
Convict #1
[A young woman begins washing a car near the inmates, soaping up her own body as well]
Oh man, oh man, I'm dyin'.
Convict #2
She ain't got nothin' but, nothin' but one safety pin holdin' that thing on. Come on safety pin, POP. Come on baby, POP.
Dragline Hey Lord, whatever I done, don't strike me blind for another couple of minutes. My Lucille!...That's Lucille, you mother-head. Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille.
She don't know what she's doin'.
Oh boy, she knows exactly what she's doin'. She's drivin' us crazy and lovin' every minute of it.
Dragline Shut your mouth about my Lucille.
Dragline Did you see how she was just about POP-in' out of the top of that dress...And down below, man, that thing didn't reach no higher than...She liable to catch cold runnin' around like that. It was stretched so tight across her bottom, I do believe I saw one of them seams bust loose. And the openin' got wider and wider and wider.
Forget it, man.
Dragline Whaddya mean, forget it?
Stop beatin' it into the ground. It ain't doin' nobody no good.
Dragline OK, new meat. You get some sleep. And save your strength, cause you're gonna need it. Tomorrow.
Dragline [Dragline has repeatedly knocked Luke down during a boxing match]
Stay down. You're beat.
You're gonna have to kill me... [struggles back to his feet]
Dragline [After Luke wins a poker game by bluffing]
Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Dragline Where'd the road go?
That's it. That's the end of it.
Man, there's still daylight.
Dragline About two hours left.
What do we do now?
Nothin'.
Dragline Oh Luke, you wild, beautiful thing. You crazy handful of nothin'.
I can eat fifty eggs.
Dragline Nobody can eat fifty eggs.
You just said he could eat anything.
Dragline Did you ever eat fifty eggs?
Nobody ever eat fifty eggs.
Hey, Babalugats. We got a bet here.
Dragline My boy says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs.
Yeah, but in how long?
An hour.
Well, I believe I'll take part of that wager.
Dragline Why you got to go and say fifty eggs for? Why not thirty-five or thirty-nine?
I thought it was a nice round number.
Dragline Knock it off, Luke. You can't talk about Him that way.
Are you still believin' in that big bearded Boss up there? You think he's watchin' us?
Dragline Get in here. Ain't ya scared? Ain't ya scared of dyin'?
Dyin'? Boy, he can have this little life any time he wants to. Do ya hear that? Are ya hearin' it? Come on. You're welcome to it, ol' timer. Let me know you're up there. Come on. Love me, hate me, kill me, anything. Just let me know it.
Dragline You're an original, that's what you are. Them mullet-heads didn't even know you was foolin'.
Foolin' 'em, huh? You can't fool 'em about somethin' like that. They broke me...
Dragline Aw. All that time, you was plannin' on runnin' again.
I never planned anything in my life.
Anybody here? Hey, Old Man. You home tonight? Can You spare a minute. It's about time we had a little talk. I know I'm a pretty evil fellow... killed people in the war and got drunk... and chewed up municipal property and the like. I know I got no call to ask for much... but even so, You've got to admit You ain't dealt me no cards in a long time. It's beginning to look like You got things fixed so I can't never win out. Inside, outside, all of them... rules and regulations and bosses. You made me like I am. Now just where am I supposed to fit in? Old Man, I gotta tell You. I started out pretty strong and fast. But it's beginning to get to me. When does it end? What do You got in mind for me? What do I do now? Right. All right. [Gets on knees, closes eyes and begins to pray] On my knees, asking. [pause] Yeah, that's what I thought. I guess I'm pretty tough to deal with, huh? A hard case. Yeah. I guess I gotta find my own way.
Dragline Luke?
Dragline Luke? You all right? They got us, boy. They're out there, thicker than flies. Bosses, dogs, sheriffs, more guns than I've ever seen in my life. You ain't got a chance. They caught up with me right after we split up. And they was aimin' to kill ya. But I fixed it. I got 'em to promise if you give up peaceful, they won't whip ya this time...Luke, you gotta listen to me. All ya got to do is give up nice and quiet. Just play cool.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
Dragline They took him right down that road.
What'd he look like, Drag?...Yeah, what'd he look like?..He had his eyes opened or closed, Drag?
Dragline He was smiling...That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it 'fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Old Luke, he was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker.
