"Michael, that man over there is talking to himself see that scary guy over there? Well, who is he? What's his name?." "If you had come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day." Tom telling the Don about Sonny's killing I was about to come up and wake just now and tell you." / Don:"But you needed a drink first." "And now you've had your drink." / Tom:"They shot Sonny on the causeway. Consiglieri of mine, I think you should tell your Don what everyone seems to know." / Tom:"I didn't tell Mama anything. But uh, until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter's wedding day."ĭon:"My wife is crying upstairs. "Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. "Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again." But he must let us draw the water from the well." "Certainly, he can present a bill for such services. Corleone is a man who insists on hearing bad news immediately." "I want you to see what he's got under his fingernails." "ĭon Vito and Michael conversing in the garden 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. 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. Sonny: "How's Paulie?" / Clemenza: "Oh, Paulie? You won't see him no more." To the Italian people, that is a very religious, sacred, close relationship." "I don't care how many daigo guinea WOP greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork! Well let me tell you something, my Kraut Mick friend! I'm gonna make so much trouble for you, you won't know what hit you!" MC: "My father is no different than any other powerful man - any man who's responsible for other people, like a senator or president." KAY: "You know how naive you nators and presidents don't have men killed." MC: "Oh, who's being naive, Kay?" It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes." 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've made here today." And if some unlucky accident should befall him - If he should get 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, them I'm going to blame some of the people in this room, and that I do not forgive. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again. "Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hands, alright?" "Now listen: I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. She was the greatest piece of ass I ever had, and I've had'em all over the world!" Sal: "Tom, can you get me off the hook? For old times' sake?" / Tom: "Can't do it Sally" "You're not gonna wanna hear this Sonny, but if your father dies, you make the deal." badaBING! you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit. "Whatya gonna do? Nice college boy, eh? Don't wanna get mixed up in the family business? Now you wanna gun down a police captain because he slapped you in the face a little bit, huh? Whataya think this is, the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away? You gotta get up close like this. "You sonofabitch, do you know who I am? I'm Moe Greene! I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders." "Today I settled all Family business, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo." "No Sicilian can refuse any request on his daughter's wedding day." That's my family, Kay, it's not me."Įver hear THIS version? It's from Pacino's bad screentest! Luca Brasi held a gun to his head and my father assured him that either his brains, or his signature, would be on the contract. My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse. An' within an hour, he signed a release, for a certified check for $1000. "So the next day, my father went to see him only this time with Luca Brasi. But I didn't know until this day, that it was Barzini all along." "You can act like a man! What's the matter with you?" "A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." ) "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."ĭon Corleone to Johnny Fontane about Woltz THE GODFATHER (1972) - QUOTES MAIN / A / GF1 / Quotes