"[on the telephone with Dr. Young.] You gotta help me. I'm in love with Linda. We want to get married... thank you. There's only one problem - she needs a nine inch cock. I'm only 3 inches away from true happiness, is there anything you can do? You can? Really? [turning to Linda Lovelace] No problem, honey. He can cut it off as short as you want!"

"Lovelace is almost a Ripley’s Believe-It-Or-Not as she takes the whole joint down her gullet. No, it’s not a small-potato penis but a roustabout rod of ten inches that plummets into the deepest recesses of our lady’s oral cavity. It seems a miracle. … I was never so moved by any theatrical performance since stuttering through my own bar mitzvah."

"Charlie Cheswick: Rules?! PISS ON YOUR FUCKING RULES, MISS RATCHED!!"

"Mews Small—Candy"

"Mimi Sarkisian—Nurse Pilbow"

"Phil Roth—Woolsey"

"Dwight Marfield—Ellsworth, Dancing Patient"

"Sydney Lassick—Charlie Cheswick"

"Scatman Crothers—Orderly Turkle"

"Alonzo Brown—Miller"

"Dean R. Brooks—Dr. John Spivey"

"Peter Brocco—Colonel Matterson"

"Christopher Lloyd—Taber"

"Danny DeVito—Martini"

"Michael Berryman—Ellis"

"William Redfield—Harding"

"Brad Dourif—Billy Bibbit"

"Will Sampson—Chief Bromden"

"Louise Fletcher—Nurse Mildred Ratched"

"Jack Nicholson—Randle Patrick McMurphy"

"Charlie Cheswick: I want my cigarettes! Miss Ratched!"

"Chief Bromden: Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Mac? [sees the lobotomy scars on McMurphy] Oh, no. [brings McMurphy close to him, hugging the comatose man] I'm not going without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. [laying him down gently and preparing to kill him with mercy] Let's go."

"Mr. Cheswick, you sit down!"

"If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way."

"But I tried, didn't I? Goddammit, at least I did that."

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

"[after his electric shock therapy] They, uh, was givin' me 10,000 watts a day, you know, and I'm hot to trot. The next woman takes me on's gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars!"

"How about it? You creeps, you lunatics, mental defectives. Let's hear it for Bull Goose Randle back in action...You ding-a-lings. The Mental Defective League, in formation."

"[to Billy] You're just a young kid. What are you doin' here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why – bird-doggin' chicks and bangin' beaver! What are ya doin' here, for Christ's sake? What's funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin' but complain about how you can't stand it in this place here and then you haven't got the guts just to walk out!"

"You wanna bet? One week. I bet in one week, I can put a bug so far up her ass she won't know whether to shit or wind her wristwatch."

"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."

"But Doc, she was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and, uh, she told me she was eighteen and she was, uh, very willing, you know what I mean...I practically had to take to sewin' my pants shut. But, uh between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of ya, I don't think it's crazy at all now and I don't think you do either...No man alive could resist that, and that's why I got into jail to begin with. And now they're telling me I'm crazy over here because I don't sit there like a goddamn vegetable. Don't make a bit of sense to me. If that's what's bein' crazy is, then I'm senseless, out of it, gone-down-the-road, wacko. But no more, no less, that's it."

"[to Adrian] I was wonderin' if, uh, you wouldn't mind marryin' me very much."

"Sylvia Meals - Mary Anne Creed"

"Leonard Gaines - Agent"

"Joe Spinell - Tony Gazzo"

"Tony Burton - Duke (Apollo's Trainer)"

"Burgess Meredith - Mickey Goldmill"

"Carl Weathers - Apollo Creed"

"Burt Young - Paulie"

"Talia Shire - Adrian"

"Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa"

"The Italian Stallion is back!"

"The story continues..."

"The Rematch Of The Century."

"Duke: [to Apollo] You're the Man. You're number one. The Champ, the best of all time. Girls love you - Men, old people love you. Young people love you. You're the best. You're the Man, and he's yours. He's yours, he's yours. This bum shouldn't be in the same ring with you. I want you to show him who you are tonight. Show him who you are tonight. Stick him!"

"Duke: [to Apollo about Rocky] He's all wrong for us, baby. I saw you beat that man like I never saw no man get beat before, and the man kept coming after you. Now, we don't need that kinda man like that in our lives. I know what you're feelin'. Let it go! Let it go! You're the champ."

"There's one thing I want you to do for me. Win. Win!"