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Godfather Quotes (1972)
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Famous Godfather Quotations
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Generally acknowledged as a bona fide classic, this Francis Ford Coppola film is one of those rare experiences that feels perfectly right from beginning to end--almost as if everyone involved had been born to participate in it. Based on Mario Puzo's bestselling novel about a Mafia dynasty, Coppola's Godfather extracted and enhanced the most universal themes of immigrant experience in America: the plotting-out of hopes and dreams for one's successors, the raising of children to carry on the good work, etc. In the midst of generational strife during the Vietnam years, the film somehow struck a chord with a nation fascinated by the metamorphosis of a rebellious son (Al Pacino) into the keeper of his father's dream. Marlon Brando played against Puzo's own conception of patriarch Vito Corleone, and time has certainly proven the actor correct. The rest of the cast, particularly James Caan, John Cazale, and Robert Duvall as the rest of Vito's male brood--all coping with how to take the mantle of responsibility from their father--is seamless and wonderful. --Tom Keogh
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- Bonasera: I believe in America. America has made my fortune. And I raised my daughter in the American fashion. I gave her freedom, but I taught her never to dishonor her family. She found a boyfriend; not an Italian. She went to the movies with him; she stayed out late. I didn't protest. Two months ago, he took her for a drive, with another boyfriend. They made her drink whiskey. And then they tried to take advantage of her. She resisted. She kept her honor. So they beat her, like an animal. When I went to the hospital, her nose was a'broken. Her jaw was a'shattered, held together by wire. She couldn't even weep because of the pain. But I wept. Why did I weep? She was the light of my life beautiful girl. Now she will never be beautiful again. I went to the police, like a good American. These two boys were brought to trial. The judge sentenced them to three years in prison - suspended sentence. Suspended sentence! They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom like a fool. And those two bastards, they smiled at me. Then I said to my wife, for justice, we must go to Don Corleone. »
- Calo: In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns. »
- Capt. McCluskey: Is the Italian food good here?
Sollozzo: Yeah, try the veal. It's the best in the city. »
- Clemenza: All right, you just shot 'em both. Now what do you do?
Michael: Sit down and finish my dinner. »
- Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. »
- Clemenza: Leave the gun.
Clemenza: Take the cannolis. »
- Clemenza: Mikey, why don't you tell that nice girl you love her? I love you with all-a my heart, if I don't see-a you again soon, I'm-a gonna die... »
- Clemenza: You know any goodest spots on the west side?
Paulie Gatto: Yeah, I think about it.
Clemenza: Well think about it while you're driving, I wanna hit New York sometime this month. »
- Connie: Dinner's on the table.
Carlo Rizzi: I'm not hungry yet.
Connie: Your food is on the table. It's getting cold.
Carlo Rizzi: I'll eat out later.
Connie: You just told me to make you dinner!
Carlo Rizzi: Hey, vaffanculo, eh?
Connie: I'll vaffanculo you! »
- Don Corleone: Bonasera... Bonasera... »
- Don Corleone: Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. »
- Don Corleone: I like to drink wine more than I used to.
Michael: It's good for ya, Pop.
Don Corleone: Anyway I'm drinkin' more. »
- Don Corleone: I never thought you were a bad consiglieri, Tom. I thought Santino was a bad don, rest in peace. »
- Don Corleone: I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life - I don't apologize - to take care of my family, and I refused to be a fool, dancing on the string held by all those bigshots. I don't apologize - that's my life - but I thought that, that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string. Senator Corleone; Governor Corleone. Well, it wasn't enough time, Michael. It wasn't enough time.
Michael: We'll get there, pop. We'll get there. »
- Don Corleone: I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless. But not men. »
- Don Corleone: I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room; and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today. »
- Don Corleone: Never let anyone outside the family know what you're thinking. »
- Don Corleone: Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day. »
- Don Corleone: Tattaglia's a pimp. He never could've out-fought Santino. But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along. »
- Don Corleone: What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you. »
- Don Corleone: You could act like a man.
Don Corleone: What's the matter with you? Is this what you've become, some Hollywood finnochio that cries like a woman?
Don Corleone: Oh, Godfather, what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? »
- Don Corleone: You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you? Or my boy to me? »
- Jack Woltz: Johnny Fontane never gets that movie. That part is perfect for him, it'll make him a big star, and I'm gonna run him out of the business - and let me tell you why: Johnny Fontane ruined one of Woltz International's most valuable proteges. For five years we had her under training - singing lessons, acting lessons, dancing lessons. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her, I was gonna make her a big star. And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man, and that it's not all dollars and cents: She was beautiful; she was young; she was innocent. She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world. And then Johnny Fontane comes along with his olive oil voice and guinea charm, and she runs off. She threw it all away just to make me look ridiculous! And a man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous! »
- Jack Woltz: Now you listen to me, you smooth talking son-of-a-bitch. Let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is. Johnny Fontane will never get that movie. I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork. »
- Kay Adams: Michael, is it true? Did you have Carlo murdered?
Michael: Don't ask me about my business, Kay. »
- Luca Brasi: Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of your daughter's wedding. And I hope their first child be a masculine child. I pledge my ever-ending loyalty. »
- Luca Brasi: Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your home on the wedding day of your daughter. And may their first child be a masculine child. »
- Michael Corleone: Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in. »
- Michael: Ah, get me Long Beach 4-5620. please »
- Michael: Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you, but don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever. »
- Michael: I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. »
- Michael: It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business. »
- Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed.
Michael: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay? »
- Michael: My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Kay Adams: What was that?
Michael: Luca Brasi, held a gun to his head, and my father assured him, that either his brain or his signature would be on the contract. »
- Michael: Some people will pay a lot of money for that information; but then your daughter would lose a father, instead of gaining a husband. »
- Michael: That's my family, Kay. It's not me. »
- Moe Greene: Do you know who I am? I'm Moe Greene. I made my bones while you were going out with cheerleaders. »
- Sollozzo: I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman; blood is a big expense. »
- Sonny: Goddamn FBI don't respect nothin'. »
- Sonny: Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hands, alright?
Clemenza: The gun'll be there. »
- Sonny: Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh? Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh? Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why? Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit? Hah? What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away? You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit. C'mere...
Michael: Sonny...
Sonny: You're taking this very personal. Tom, this is business and this man is taking it very personal. »
- Sonny: How's Paulie?
Clemenza: Oh, Paulie... won't see him no more. »
- Sonny: We don't discuss business at the table. »
- Sonny: You touch my sister again, I'll kill you. »
- Tessio: Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times' sake?
Tom Hagen: Can't do it, Sally. »
- Tom Hagen: Mr. Corleone never asks a second favor once he's refused the first, understood? »
- Tom Hagen: Mr. Woltz, I'm a lawyer, I have not threatened you.
Jack Woltz: I know almost every big lawyer in New York, who the hell are you?
Tom Hagen: I have a special practice. I handle one client. Now you have my number. I'll wait for your call. By the way, I admire your pictures very much. »
- Tom Hagen: Now we have the unions, we have the gambling; and they're the best things to have. But narcotics is a thing of the future. And if we don't get a piece of that action, we risk everything we have. I mean not now, but, ah, ten years from now. »
- Tom Hagen: You know how they're going to come at you?
Michael: They want to arrange a meeting between me and Barzini. On Tessio's ground. Where I'll be safe. »
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