Movie Quotes

Kay: It made me think of what you once told me: “In five years the Corleone family will be completely legitimate.” That was seven years ago.
Michael Corleone: I know. I’m trying, darling.

Michael Corleone: I don’t feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.

Don Michael Corleone: Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Michael Corleone: I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!

Don Ciccio: It’s not his words I’m afraid of.

Michael: You heard what happened in my home?
[Frank: Mike, I almost died myself, we was all so relieved] In my home! In my bedroom, where my wife sleeps; where my children come and play with their toys. In my home

Don Fanucci: Oh, this is too violent for me!

Hyman Roth: We’re bigger than U. S. Steel!

Vito Corleone: I make him an offer he don’t refuse.

Fredo Corleone: I’m your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over!
Michael: That’s the way Pop wanted it.
Fredo: It ain’t the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I’m smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… I’m smart and I want respect!

[Ordering drinks in a Havana cafe.]Fredo Corleone: Uno… por favor…
[to Michael]Fredo Corleone: How do you say “banana daiquiri”?
Michael Corleone: “Banana daiquiri.”

Frankie Pentangeli: Michael, You’re sitting high up in the Sierra Mountains and you’re drinking Champagne cocktails! And you’re passing judgement on how I run my family.

Vito: I’ll reason with him.

Hyman Roth: I loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstien fixed the World Series in 1919.

Genco Abbandando: Vito, how do you like my little angel? Isn’t she beautiful?
Vito Corleone: She’s very beautiful. To you, she’s beautiful. For me, there’s only my wife and son.

Hyman Roth: Stupid thugs. People behaving like that with guns.

Hyman Roth: This is the business we chose

Frankie Pentangeli: And you’re drinking Champagne cocktails!

Tom Hagen: This committee owes an apology.

Willy Cicci: Yeah, a buffer. The family had a lot of buffers.

Michael Corleone: He was stupid. I was lucky. I will visit him soon.

Frank Pentangeli: Those were the great old days,you know…And we was like the Roman Empire…The Corleone family was like the Roman Empire…

Michael: If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.

Fredo Corleone: I can handle things! I’m smart!