THE LINE: “I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this.”
THE FILM: In this 1975 classic, Nicholson plays a criminal who pleads insanity but gets more than he bargained for when he’s sent to an Oregon mental institution ruled with an iron fist by the terrifying Nurse Ratched. His ringleader character tries to get the patients to rebel, but the situation is even crazier than he had imagined. Nicholson won his first Oscar for the part.