Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

Always stay in your own movie.

When I die pin me up against the sky.

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

They're out there...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating.

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Because sometimes the only way to keep from losing everything is to give everything up. Because sometimes strength must for the sake of winning give in to--

He hadn't let what he looked like run his life one way or the other, any more than he'd let the Combine mill him into fitting where they wanted him to fit.

Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?

...you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy

...you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy

You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

You get your visions through whatever gate you're granted.

What a Life: Give some of us pills to stop a fit, give the rest shock to start one.

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is.

There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.

I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

In film as a medium, you're often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it's usually a very definite point of view.