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The Godfather,
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"Mama! Mama mia!"
stage actor
"My father taught me many things ... keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
Michael to Pentangeli
"You heard what happened in my home? [Frank: Mike, I almost died myself, we was all so relieved] In my home! In my bedroon, where my wife sleeps; where my children come and play with their toys. In my home."
Michael to Pentengeli
"I loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstien fixed the World Series in 1919."
Hyman Roth to Michael
"I'll make an offer he don't refuse. Don't worry."
Young Vito to Clemenza about Fanucci
"I'd give four million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting"
Hyman Roth to Michael
"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart."
Michael to Fredo
"Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel!"
Hyman Roth to Michael
"Yeah, a buffer. The family had a lot of buffers."
Willy Cicci to the Senate Committee
"Fredo, you're nothing to me now; not a brother, not a friend. I don't want to know you, or what you do."
Michael to Fredo
"If anything in this life is certain; If history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone."
Michael to Tom and Rocco about Roth
"I don't trust a doctor who can hardly speak English."
Hyman Roth
"They went home and sat in a hot bath -- opened up their veins, and bled to death. And sometimes they had a little party before they did it."
Pentangeli to Tom Hagen, confirming his suicide
"I am a retired investor on a pension, and I wished to live there as a Jew in the twilight of my life."
Hyman Roth to reporters
Michael: "Was it a boy?" Tom:"Mikey, after three and a half months..." Michael:"Now can't you give me a straight answer any more! Was it a boy?"
Michael and Tom
I don't--I never knew no godfather. I got my own family, senator"
Pentangeli to senate commision
"Hail Mary, full of grace...." BAM!
Fredo gets shot as he prays
"I'm your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over!"
Fredo to Michael
"I can handle things, I'm smart, not like everybody says. Not dumb, I'm smart, and I want respect!"
Fredo to Michael
"Whatcha go to college to get stupid? You're really stupid!"
Sonny to Michael (in flashback)
"Cicc', a porta"
Pentangeli to Cicci
"Oh, oh, Michael; Michael, you are blind. It wasn't a miscarriage, it was an abortion. An abortion, Michael. Just like our marriage is an abortion -- something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son, Michael. I wouldn't bring another one of your sons in this world. It was an abortion, Michael. It was a son; a son, and I had it killed cuz this must all end. I know now tha it's over; I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael. No way you could forgive me. Not with this Sicilian thing thats been going on for 2000 years."
Kay to Michael
"Don't you know that I would use all of my power to prevent something like that from happening?"
Michael to Kay re:leaving
"I don't like your kind of people. I don't like to see you come out to this clean country in oily hair, and dressed up in those silk suits, and try to pass yourselves off as decent Americans. I despise your masquerade; the dishonest way you pose yourself, yourself and your fucking family."
Senator Geary to Michael
"Your father did business with Hyman Roth; Your father respected Hyman Roth; But your father never trusted Hyman Roth"
Pentangelli to Michael
"We're all part of the same hypocrisy, Senator. But never think it applies to my family."
Michael to Senator Geary
"Michael, why are the drapes open?"
Kay to Michael
"But Vito is only nine. And dumb-witted. The child cannot harm you."
Vito's mother to Don Ciccio
"Hyman Roth always makes money for his partners."
Johnny Ola to Michael
"Why do you hurt me, Michael? I've always been loyal to you."
Tom to Michael
"Can't you forgive Fredo? He's so sweet and helpless without you."
Connie to Michael
"Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods. But you don't even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I've got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little. I hear you and your friends cleared $600 each. Give me $200 each, for your own protection. And I'll forget the insult. You young punks have to learn to respect a man like me! Otherwise the cops will come to your house. And your family will be ruined. Of course, if I'm wrong about how much you stole, I'll take a little less. And by less, I only mean -- a hundred bucks less. Now don't refuse me. Understand, paisan? Understand, paisan? ... Tell your friends I don't want a lot. Just enough to wet my beak. Don't be afraid to tell them!"
Fanucci to Vito in Italian
"Discontent for money is just a trick of the rich to keep the poor without it."
Michael to Gardner Shaw (the man Michael's niece Francesca is engaging) in the Epic
"Alive, Rocco! Alive!"
Micheal to Rocco Lampone
"I don't want anything to happen to him while my mother's alive."
Michael to Neri re: Fredo
"I'm going to take a nap. When I wake up, if the money is on the table, I'll know I have a partner. If it isn't, I'll know I don't."
Hyman Roth to Michael
"Good health is the most important thing. More than success, more than money, more than power."
Hyman Roth to Michael
"Where's Michael? I've got things to get straight with him and I can't wait on line."
Connie to Mama Corleone
"Every time I put the line down I would say a Hail Mary, and every time I said a Hail Mary, I would catch a fish."
Fredo to Anthony
"You give your loyalty to a Jew over your own blood."
Pentangeli to Michael
"A kid comes up to me in a white jacket, gives me a Ritz cracker and chopped liver, he says 'Canapes,' I say, 'Can o' peas my ass:! That's a Ritz cracker and chopped liver.'"
Pentangeli to Fredo
"I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business."
Hyman Roth to Michael
"What's with him? I gotta get a letter of introduction to have a 'sitdown'?"
Pentangeli to Fredo
"When Pop had troubles, did he ever think that maybe by trying to be strong, and trying to protect his family, that he could lose it instead?"
Michael to Mama Corleone
"But you can never lose your family. Never."
Mama Corleone to Michael
"It would be a shame if a few rotten apples spoiled the whole barrel."
Senator Geary at Michael's hearing
"Hyman Roth will never see the New Year."
Michael to Fredo
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