The Godfather movie quotes

Luca Brasi: Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your home on the wedding day of your daughter.

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. [then, starting over]

We'll go to the city, see a show and have dinner, I promise.

Michael: Ah, that little farce you played with my sister.

Carlo Rizzi: Mike, I'm innocent.

Today I settled all family business so don't tell me that you're innocent.

Admit what you did.

Come on, you think I'd make my sister a widow?

Because it insults my intelligence and it makes me very angry.

Now, who approached you first?

This one time I'll let you ask me about my affairs.

Sollozzo: [smiles at Tom] My compliments.

[Hagen gives a formal nod]

Don Corleone: So, I am to receive thirty percent for finance, for legal protection and political influence.

Don Corleone: So, I am to receive thirty percent for finance, for legal protection and political influence.

Don Corleone: So, I am to receive thirty percent for finance, for legal protection and political influence.

What have I done to deserve such generosity?

What have I done to deserve such generosity?

Sollozzo: If you consider a million dollars in cash merely finance... [raises his glass]

Sollozzo: If you consider a million dollars in cash merely finance... [raises his glass]

Sollozzo: If you consider a million dollars in cash merely finance... [raises his glass]

Don Corleone: I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man, to be treated with respect.

Don Corleone: It makes no difference, it don't make any difference to me what a man does for a living, you understand.

Sollozzo: If you're worried about security for your million, the Tattaglias will guarantee it.

Sollozzo: If you're worried about security for your million, the Tattaglias will guarantee it.

Sonny: Whoa, now, you're telling me that the Tattaglias guarantee our investment without...?

Don Corleone: Wait a minute. [the Don gives his son a cold stare, freezing Santino into silence.

Don Corleone: Wait a minute. [the Don gives his son a cold stare, freezing Santino into silence.

The others fidget with embarrassment at this outbreak, but Sollozzo looks slyly satisfied...

The others fidget with embarrassment at this outbreak, but Sollozzo looks slyly satisfied...

The others fidget with embarrassment at this outbreak, but Sollozzo looks slyly satisfied...

Don Corleone: [dismissive] I have a sentimental weakness for my children and I spoil them, as you can see.

Don Corleone: [dismissive] I have a sentimental weakness for my children and I spoil them, as you can see.

Don Corleone: [dismissive] I have a sentimental weakness for my children and I spoil them, as you can see.

Michael: You took Freddie in because the Corleone Family bankrolled your casino, and the Molinari Family on the Coast guaranteed his safety.

You're getting chased out of New York by Barzini and the other Families.

Tom, you're the Consiglieri and you can talk to the Don, you can explain...

Michael has all my confidence as do you.

Michael: I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos.

We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear 5 times a year.

I pledge my ever-ending loyalty.

Share this [after Michael gets off the phone with Kay, clearly too embarrassed to tell her he loves her]

Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael?

My client promises to make that trouble disappear.

You have a top star who makes a lot of money, but he just graduated from marijuana to heroin...

I've come to ask a service for a friend...

I have not threatened you.

By the way, I admire your pictures very much.

America has made my fortune.

I gave her freedom but I taught her never to dishonor her family.

They made her drink whiskey and then they tried to take advantage of her.

She resisted.

[He breaks down at this point, and the Don gestures to his son to get him a drink]

[He regains his composure and carries on]

[He regains his composure and carries on]

The judge sentenced them to three years in prison, and suspended the sentence.

[Bonasera gets up from his seat and whispers into the Don's ear; for a long moment the Don is silent]

Within an hour, he had a signed release for a certified check of $1000.

Within an hour, he had a signed release for a certified check of $1000.

Sonny: What did he say, badda-beep, badda-boop, badda-boop, badda-beep, he wants us to send Michael to hear the proposition and the promise is the deal is so good we can't refuse.

Bruno cancels out what they did to my father.

Sonny: Well then, business is going to have to suffer.

No more advice on how to patch things up just help me win, please?

No more advice on how to patch things up just help me win, please?

Now what you have to understand, Sonny, is that while Sollozzo's being guarded like this he is invulnerable.

So, do me a favor, take this into consideration.

Now we insist that it be held in a public place, a bar or a restaurant where there'll be other people there so I'll feel safe.

I'm talking about a - a - a dishonest cop - a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him.

I'm talking about a - a - a dishonest cop - a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him.

But only in matters of business, or of some sort of reasonable complaint.

But only in matters of business, or of some sort of reasonable complaint.

There is more money potential in narcotics than anything else we're looking at now.

And with the money they earn they'll be able to buy more police and political power.

If you interfere you'll have to appear before a judge in the morning and show cause.

Stand him up straight. [punches Michael and breaks his jaw]

Michael: What I want... what's most important to me is that I have a guarantee: no more attempts on my father's life.

All I want is a truce.

[Michael gets up, but a suspicious Sollozzo probes Michael's crotch, to Michael's offense]

McCluskey: I frisked him.

A refusal is not the act of a friend.

Certainly he can present a bill for such services; after all... we are not Communists.

Don Corleone: Mention it, don't insist.

Michael: They want to arrange a meeting between me and Barzini.

Don Corleone: You talk about vengeance.

What is that nonsense?

Ridiculous! [the Don's unexpected mimicry makes Hagen and even Fontane laugh; around this time Sonny comes in]

Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. [gives a quick look at Sonny and affectionately embraces Fontane]

Go on, go back to the party. [a gratified Fontane leaves]

Now Italians regard that as a very close, a very sacred religious relationship.

Jack Woltz: Tell your boss he can ask for anything else, but this is one favour I can't grant him.

Johnny Fontane ruined one of Woltz International's most valuable proteges.

Johnny Fontane ruined one of Woltz International's most valuable proteges.

Johnny Fontane ruined one of Woltz International's most valuable proteges.

And a man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous.

[Hagen has been calmly eating his meal throughout Woltz's tirade]

Tom Hagen: Thank you for the dinner and a very pleasant evening.

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.

Sollozzo: I don't like violence, Tom.

I forgo the vengance of my son.

And if some unluck accident should befall him, if he should be shot in the head by a police officer, or if 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.

And if some unluck accident should befall him, if he should be shot in the head by a police officer, or if 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.

And if some unluck accident should befall him, if he should be shot in the head by a police officer, or if 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.

And if some unluck accident should befall him, if he should be shot in the head by a police officer, or if 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.

Connie: [shrieking at Michael] You killed my husband!

Michael Corleone: [to Kay] She's hysterical.

Clemenza: Damn it, Sonny's running scared.

We got to go pick up some stuff at this address.

Somebody comes to them and says, "I have powders; if you put up three, four thousand dollar investment, we can make fifty thousand distributing."

I want to control it as a business, to keep it respectable. [slams his hand on the table and shouts]

In my city, we would keep the traffic in the dark people, the coloreds.

Share this [the Corleone Family poses for the wedding photo]

[Clemenza and Michael arrive to find extra guards posted outside the house]

[Clemenza prepares Michael for his meeting with Sollozzo]

Clemenza: [holding up a .22] It's as cold as they come, impossible to trace.

I put a special tape on the trigger and the butt.

Don't look nobody directly in the eye, hut don't look away either.

He is surprised to find her subdued and evasive]

[He looks at her swollen face and understands what has happened.

Am I going to make that baby an orphan before he's born?

[Connie gives a chuckle, and Sonny kisses her again and good-humouredly shrugs his soldiers]

No Sicilian can ever refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day.

He has no doubt that you will repay him.

In one hour he will be at your funeral parlor to ask for your help.

Be there to greet him. [as ordered, a nervous Bonasera meets the Don at his parlor]

What do you want me to do? [the two walk into the embalming room, where a corpse lies on a table...

I don't want his mother to see him this way. [he draws back the sheet to reveal, to a horrified Bonasera, the bullet-smashed face of Sonny Corleone]

Tom... the boss says he'll come in a separate car.

Tom Hagen: The Senator called, he apologized for not coming but said that you would understand; also some of the judges.

Don Corleone: We have known each other many years, but this is the first time you've come to me for counsel or for help.

The police protected you and there were courts of law.

If you'd come to me in friendship, this scum who ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day.

And if by some chance an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies.

Godfather. [the Don at first shrugs, but upon hearing the title he lifts his hand, and a humbled Bonasera kisses the ring on it]

I want reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried away.

I mean, we're not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker thinks...

[Silence reigns around the table for a while]

Don Corleone: It's an old habit.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless.

What's bothering you?

Senator Corleone, Governor Corleone, something.

Don Corleone: [to Michael] Listen, whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting, he's the traitor.

He'll set up a meeting with someone that you absolutely trust, guaranteeing your safety.

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

Come on, you think I'd make my sister a widow?

You're finished.

Because it insults my intelligence and it makes me very angry.

Because it insults my intelligence and it makes me very angry.

Don Corleone: So, I am to receive thirty percent for finance, for legal protection and political influence.

What have I done to deserve such generosity?

What have I done to deserve such generosity?

Sollozzo: If you consider a million dollars in cash merely finance... [raises his glass]

Sollozzo: If you consider a million dollars in cash merely finance... [raises his glass]

Don Corleone: I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man, to be treated with respect.

It's true I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn't be so friendly if they knew my business was drugs instead of gambling which they consider a harmless vice.

Sollozzo: If you're worried about security for your million, the Tattaglias will guarantee it.