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Cool Hand Luke Quotes

“What we've got here is failure to communicate.”
— Captain, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Failure, Communicate
“The Girl: [Washing her car with the radio on loud to get the prisoners’ attention]

Dragline: Hey, Lord... whatever I done, don't strike me blind for another couple of minutes.”
— Dragline, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: ogling, Horny, prayer
“That's my darling Luke. He grins like a baby but bites like a gator.”
— Dragline, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Bite Worse than Bark, Baby, gator
“You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right.”
— Captain, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Runaway Prisoners, Get Your Mind Right
“Now, I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean sum-bitch.”
— Captain, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: good guy, mean, Son of a Bitch
“What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.”
— Captain, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Failure to Communicate
“[Speaking to her son Luke] You know, sometimes, I wished people was like dogs, Luke. Comes a time, a day like, when the bitch just don't recognize the pups no more, so she don't have no hopes nor love to give her pain. She just don't give a damn.”
— Arletta, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Dogs, Pups, Bitch, IDGAF
“Boss: Sorry, Luke. I'm just doing my job. You gotta appreciate that.

Luke: Nah—calling it your job don't make it right, Boss.”
— Luke Jackson, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Just Following Orders, Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right
“Yeah, well...sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.”
— Luke Jackson, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Nothing, Cool Hand
“Dragline: Why you got to go and say fifty eggs for? Why not thirty-five or thirty-nine?

Luke: I thought it was a nice round number.”
— Luke Jackson, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Egg Eating Contest, Round Number
“Boss Paul: That ditch is Boss Kean's ditch. And I told him that dirt in it's your dirt. What's your dirt doin' in his ditch?

Luke: I don't know, Boss.

Boss Paul: You better get in there and get it out, boy.”
— Luke Jackson, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Prison, Chain Gang, Claustrophobia
“Oh come on. Stop beatin' it. Get out there yourself. Stop feedin' off me. Get out of here. I can't breathe. Give me some air.”
— Luke Jackson, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: I Can't Breathe, Claustrophobia
“[Alone in a church, talking to God, as police lights begin flashing] Is that your answer, old man? Well, I guess you're a hard case, too.”
— Luke Jackson, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: prayer, Old Man, atheism
“Captain: You gonna get used to wearin' them chains after a while, Luke. Don't you never stop listenin' to them clinking. 'Cause they gonna remind you of what I been saying. For your own good.

Luke: Wish you'd stop being so good to me, Captain.”
— Luke Jackson, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Prison, Mental Torture
“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'.”
— George Kennedy, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Nothing, handful, mullet
“He's a natural born world-shaker.”
— George Kennedy, Cool Hand Luke
Tagged: Natural, born, world-shaker
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