One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest quotes

47 total quotes

Multiple Characters
Nurse Ratched
R.P. McMurphy

View Quote McMurphy: Billy what's the matter, fishing don't grab ya?
Billy: Um, y-y-y-yeah. They-they-they-they-they do.

View Quote McMurphy: We're just having a little party.
Orderly Turkle: Party my ass! This ain't no nightclub!

View Quote [to Martini] You're not an idiot. Huh! You're not a goddamn looney now, boy. You're a fisherman!

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

View Quote But I tried, didn't I? Goddamn it. At least I did that.

View Quote God Almighty, she's got you guys comin' or goin'. What do you think she is, some kind of a champ or somethin'?

View Quote Nurse Ratched: There are eighteen patients on this ward, Mr. McMurphy. And you have to have a majority to change ward policy. So you gentlemen can put your hands down now.
McMurphy: [turning and gesturing toward other men out of hearing range on the ward floor] You're trying to tell me that you're gonna count these, these poor son-of-bitches, they don't know what we're talking about?
Nurse Ratched: Well, I have to disagree with you, Mr. McMurphy. These men are members of the ward just as you are.

View Quote 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.

View Quote I'd like to know why none of the guys never told me that you, Miss Ratched, and the doctors could keep me here 'til you're good and ready to turn me loose. That's what I'd like to know.

View Quote Jesus, I must be crazy to be in a loony-bin like this.

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

View Quote Why don't ya shut your goddamn mouth and play some music?

View Quote I wanna see the hands. Come on. Which one of you nuts has got any guts?

View Quote I like peanuts!

View Quote Jesus Christ! D'you nuts wanna play cards or do ya wanna ****in' jerk off?