Cool Hand Luke Quotes

[ 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.

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[ Alone in a church, talking to God, as police lights begin flashing ]
Luke : Is that your answer, old man? Well, I guess you're a hard case too.

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Dog Boy : Look Cap'n, look what he done to Blue. He's dead, he's dead. he run himself plum to death.

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Arletta : Why, we always thought you was strong enough to carry it. Was we wrong?
Luke : I don't know. Well, things are just never the way they seem, Arletta, you know that. A man's just gotta go his own way.

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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.

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[ Dragline has repeatedly knocked Luke down during a boxing match ]
Dragline : Stay down. You're beat.
Luke : You're gonna hafta kill me... [ struggles back to his feet ]

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[ 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.

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Luke's Nephew : [ on visiting day ] Uncle Luke? Why can't *you* have chains?
Luke : John-boy, lemme tell you something. You know, them chains ain't medals. You get 'em for making mistakes. And you make a *bad* enough mistake, and then you gotta deal with the Man. And he is one rough old boy.

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