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  • I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in the local paper, they were having auditions for a play of a book I had read. Which was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. So I said, "oh, I've read this, so I'm perfect for the part of the lead." His name is escaping me.

    Book   Escaping   Play  
    Source: collider.com
  • In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

  • You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

    Crazy   Men   Thinking  
    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.70, Hamilton Books
  • I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

    Truth   Thinking   Long  
    Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin
  • He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.

    Trying   Acting   World  
    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.61, Hamilton Books
  • 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!

    Jesus   Mean   Kids  
    "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Book by Ken Kesey, 1962.
  • What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

    People   Guy   Waiting  
    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.67, Hamilton Books
  • He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

    Life   Running   Hurt  
    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books
  • But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all

    Memorable   People   Dumb  
    Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.187, Penguin
  • I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

    Parent   Cuckoos   Pieces  
  • Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books
  • When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.

    Boys   Men   Years  
    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.

  • That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

    People   Trying   Cuckoos  
    Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.148, Penguin
  • This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

    Strong   Cuckoos   World  
    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.33, Hamilton Books
  • You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.123, Hamilton Books
  • When I was seven, I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with my mom. When Jack Nicholson was strapped to the table getting electroshock treatment, my mom burst into tears. She said it reminded her of her life, and I was stunned, because I didn't know my mom had been nominated for an Oscar.

    Mom   Tears   Cuckoos  
    "Titus / Locking Up Mom". www.imdb.com. 2000.
  • All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

    Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.166, Penguin
  • But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

    Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.224, Penguin
  • But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.3, Hamilton Books
  • They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

    Life   Eye   Cuckoos  
    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.1, Hamilton Books
  • I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.

  • If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

  • I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the closest I came to research was when I applied to work at the state mental institution in Austin, TX. I wanted to work the night shift like Ken Kesey did when he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I thought that might inspire me to write a book that great.

    Book   Writing   Night  
    Source: www.bookbrowse.com
  • What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.

  • But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

    Real   Men   Doors  
    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books
  • What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.

    Running   Years   Guy  
    Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.7, Hamilton Books
  • I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

    Book   Play   Six Months  
    "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.
  • The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it—with chickens—is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see.

    Couple   Rip   Party  
    Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (SparkNotes Literature Guide)”, SparkNotes
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