The Godfather Quotes

Michael: [To the Don, quietly] Just lie here, Pop. I'll take care of you now. I'm with you now. I'm with you.[he takes the Don's hand and kisses it, the Don begins to cry]

Sonny: How's Paulie?
Clemenza: Oh, Paulie... won't see him no more.

[After Michael gets off the phone with Kay, clearly too embarrassed to tell her he loves her]
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.

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?

[Tessio brings in Luca Brasi's bulletproof vest, delivered with a fish inside]
Sonny: What the hell is this?
Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

[Speaking with the father of the girl he plans to marry, and after telling him that he's in hiding from some gangsters]
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: You and I are going to move my father to another room, now can you disconnect those tubes so we can move the bed out of here?
Nurse: That is out of the question.
Michael: You know my father? Men are coming here to kill him, now help me, please.

Connie: What's the matter, Carlo?
Carlo Rizzi: [punk sore at the world] Shut up and set the table!

Clemenza: The negotiator's at my house playing pinochle with some of my men, he's happy. They're letting him win.

Don Corleone: I hope you don't mind the way I keep going over this Barzini business.
Michael: No, not at all.
Don Corleone: It's an old habit. I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Don Corleone: [To Michael] Listen, whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting, he's the traitor. Don't forget that.

Clemenza: Paulie, pull over, I gotta take a leak.

Michael: Fabrizzio, where are you going? [Apollonia hoots the car and starts to drive it; Fabrizzio gives a quick, furtive movement... ]
Michael: NO! NO APOLLONIA! [the car explodes]

Michael: [Teaching Apollonia to drive] It's safer to teach you English!

Tom Hagen: I have to get back to work. It's part of the wedding. No Sicilian can ever refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day.

[Clemenza and Michael arrive to find extra guards posted outside the house]
Clemenza: What's with all the new faces?
Tessio: We'll need 'em now. After the hospital thing, Sonny got mad. We hit Bruno Tattaglia at four o'clock this morning.
Clemenza: ...Jesus Christ.

[To Rocco who has killed Paulie in the car]
Peter Clemenza: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

[After Sonny beats up Carlo Rizzi for hitting Connie]
Sonny: You touch my sister again, I'll kill you.

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

Michael: [Speaking to Carlo] Only don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry.

[Tessio brings in Luca Brasi's bulletproof vest, delivered with a fish inside]
Sonny: What the hell is this?
Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

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: Did he... did Clemenza tell you to drop the gun?
Michael: Yeah, a million times.

Don Corleone: [To Michael] 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.

Michael: You gonna kill all those guys?
Sonny: Hey, Mikey, stay out of this, all right?

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

Connie: What's the matter, Carlo?
Carlo Rizzi: [Punk sore at the world] Shut up and set the table!

Virgil 'The Turk' Sollozzo: He's still alive. They hit him with five shots and he's still alive!

[To Rocco who has killed Paulie in the car]
Peter Clemenza: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

Sollozzo: I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman; blood is a big expense.

Calo: In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Sonny: Goddamn FBI don't respect nothin'.

Don Corleone: [To Luca Brasi] I'm a little worried about this Sollozzo fellow. I want you to find out what he's got under his fingernails. Go to the Tattaglias, and tell them you're not too happy with our Family, and find out what you can...

Tom Hagen: Maybe we shouldn't get Mike mixed up in this too directly...