In an interview he was asked that question and he said : "I don't think I even swallowed one. That's the miracle of editing."
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Paul Newman.
Cool Hand Luke.
What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach, so you get what we had here last week which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don't like it any more than you men. The captain isn't the only one who utters the words. Later in the movie, the main character, Luke (Paul Newman), still cocky despite being cornered by prison guards, openly mocks the Captain with the famous line.
The antagonist of the 1967 film, Cool Hand Luke, is the character known simply as the Captain, played by Strother Martin. He is the man who is constantly pushing around the inmates and who enforces the prison's rules. He is the antagonist or "bad guy" opposite of the protagonist, Luke, played by Paul Newman.
Cool Hand Luke