Quotes from Cool Hand Luke (1967)

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Paul Newman
[Luke won a game of poker on a bluff]
Dragline: 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'.
Luke: Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
- Paul Newman (as Luke) in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

George Kennedy
[Moving through the crowd, all excited about the record breaking egg eating about to take place]
Dragline: Alright, stand back you pedestrians, this ain't no automobile accident.
- George Kennedy (as Dragline) in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Paul Newman
[Why he was cutting the heads off parking meters]
Luke: Small town, not much to do in the evenin'.
- Paul Newman (as Luke) in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Paul Newman
Captain, Road Prison 36: You gonna get used to wearin' them chains afer 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 bein' so good to me, cap'n.
- Paul Newman (as Luke) in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Strother Martin
Captain, Road Prison 36: Now, I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean sum-bitch.
- Strother Martin (as Captain, Road Prison 36) in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Strother Martin
Captain, Road Prison 36: 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.
- Strother Martin (as Captain, Road Prison 36) in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Strother Martin
Captain: What we got here is... failure to communicate.
- Strother Martin (as Captain, Road Prison 36) in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

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