The Godfather (1972) Quotes

You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you? Or my boy to me?

You touch my sister again, I'll kill you.

Goddamn FBI don't respect nothin'.

Sonny : What the hell is this?
Clemenza : It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

Michael : Fabrizzio, where are you going?
Michael : NO! NO APOLLONIA!

It's safer to teach you English!

Some people will pay a lot of money for that information; but then your daughter would lose a father, instead of gaining a husband.

Just lie here, Pop. I'll take care of you now. I'm with you now. I'm with you.

Only don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry.

So, Barzini will move against you first. He'll set up a meeting with someone that you absolutely trust, guaranteeing your safety. And at that meeting, you'll be assassinated.

Listen, whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting, he's the traitor. Don't forget that.

My godson has come all the way from California. Give him a drink.

Look how they massacred my boy!

Michael : New Jersey... we're going to New Jersey?
Sollozzo : Maybe.

You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you, or my boy to me? I forgo the vengeance of my son. But I have selfish reasons. My youngest son was forced to leave this country because of this Sollozzo business. All right, now I have to make arrangements to bring him back here safely cleared of all these false charges. But I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall him... if he should be shot in the head by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell, or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning, then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room, and that I do not forgive. But, that aside, let me say that I swear, on the souls of my grandchildren, that I will not be the one to break the peace we have made here today.

Johnny Fontane : I don't know what to do, Godfather. My voice is weak, it's weak. Anyway, if I had this part in the picture, it puts me right back on top, you know. But this... this man out there. He won't give it to me, the head of the studio.
Don Corleone : What's his name?
Don Corleone : Woltz. He said there's no chance, no chance...
Johnny Fontane : A month ago he bought the rights to this book, a best seller. The main character is a guy just like me. I wouldn't even have to act, just be myself. Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do...
Don Corleone : YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!
Don Corleone : What's the matter with you? Is this what you've become, a Hollywood finocchio who cries like a woman? "Oh, what do I do? What do I do?" What is that nonsense? Ridiculous!
Don Corleone : Tell me, do you spend time with your family?
Johnny Fontane : Sure I do.
Don Corleone : Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Don Corleone : You look terrible. I want you to eat, I want you to rest well. And a month from now this Hollywood big shot's gonna give you what you want.
Johnny Fontane : Too late. They start shooting in a week.
Don Corleone : I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. Okay? I want you to leave it all to me. Go on, go back to the party

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