Other Titles • The Godfather: Part II • Mario Puzo's The Godfather: Part II (1974) • Der Pate 2 (1975)
Quotes from The Godfather: Part II (1974)
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[about the unrest in Cuba] Michael Corleone: I saw a strange thing today. Some rebels were being arrested. One of them pulled the pin on a grenade. He took himself and the captain of the command with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't. Hyman Roth: What does that tell you? Michael Corleone: It means they could win.
(68 votes)
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Michael: Was it a boy? Tom Hagen: Mikey, after three and a half months... Michael: WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER ANY MORE? WAS IT A BOY?
(61 votes)
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Fredo Corleone: Every time I put my line in the water I said a Hail Mary, and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish.
(60 votes)
4
Michael Corleone: There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
(57 votes)
5
Fredo Corleone: I'm your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over! Michael Corleone: That's the way Pop wanted it. Fredo Corleone: 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!
(50 votes)
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Hyman Roth: There was this kid I grew up with - he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me - you know. We did our first work together - worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition - we ran molasses into Canada - made a fortune - you father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him - and trusted him. Later on he had an idea - to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Green - and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man - a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque - or a signpost - or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order - when I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe - I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead - I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen - I didn't ask who gave the order - because it had nothing to do with business!
(6 votes)
7
[during the play 'Senza Mamma'] 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.
(5 votes)
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Michael Corleone: C'mon Frankie... my father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth. Frank Pentangeli: Your father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth... but he never *trusted* Hyman Roth!
(4 votes)
9
Vito Corleone: I make him an offer he don't refuse.
(3 votes)
10
Hyman Roth: If I could only live to see it, to be there with you. What I wouldn't give for twenty more years! Here we are, protected, free to make our profits without Kefauver, the goddamn Justice Department and the F.B.I. ninety miles away, in partnership with a friendly government. Ninety miles! It's nothing! Just one small step, looking for a man who wants to be President of the United States, and having the cash to make it possible. Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
(3 votes)
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Michael Corleone: I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!
(2 votes)
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Hyman Roth: This is the business we chose.
(2 votes)
13
Frank Pentangeli: Cicc', a porta!
(2 votes)
14
Michael Corleone: If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.
(1 vote)
15
Michael Corleone: Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to see you at the hotels, I don't want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won't be there. You understand?
(1 vote)
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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.
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[while watching a "Punch and Judy" puppet show] Don Fanucci: Oh, this is too violent for me!
18
Senator Pat Geary: [as they're watching the performer at the sex club] Freddie, that thing can't be real. Fredo Corleone: Sure it is. That's why they call him Superman.
19
Kay Corleone: 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 you sons into this world! It was an abortion, Michael! It was a son Michael! A son! And I had it killed because this must all end! [Michael's eyes begin to bulge] Kay Corleone: I know now that it's over. I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael... no way you could ever forgive me not with this Sicilian thing that's been going on for 2,000 years. [Michael loses control. He slaps Kay across the face. She falls onto the couch] Michael Corleone: Bitch! You won't take my children! Kay Corleone: I will. Michael Corleone: You WON'T TAKE MY CHILDREN! Kay Corleone: They're my children too.
20
Al Neri: Our friend and associate Hyman Roth is in the news. The High Court of Israel turned down his request to live there as a returning Jew. He landed in Buenos Aires last night offering a "gift" of a million dollars if they'd let him stay. They said no. His passport's been invalidated, except for his return trip to the States. Tom Hagen: He'll try Panama next. Michael Corleone: Panama won't take him. Not for a million, not for ten million.
21
Michael Corleone: I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.
22
Michael Corleone: I'll change; I'll change. I've learned that I have the strength to change.
23
Hyman Roth: What I am saying is, we have now what we have always needed, real partnership with the government.
24
Hyman Roth: Stupid thugs. People behaving like that with guns.
25
Michael Corleone: Hyman Roth has been dying from the same heart attack for the last twenty years.
26
[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."
27
Senator Pat Geary: I despise the way you pose yourself. You and your whole fucking family. Michael Corleone: We're both part of the same hypocrisy, senator, but never think it applies to my family.
28
Michael Corleone: My offer is this: nothing. Not even the $20,000 for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.
29
[Vito returns years later to Sicily and meets Don Francesco Ciccio, the man who murdered Vito's family] Don Francesco Ciccio: I see you took the name of the town. What was your father's name? Vito Corleone: Antonio Andolini. Don Francesco Ciccio: You'll have to speak up. I can't hear you Vito Corleone: My father's name was Antonio Andolini... and this is for you. [stabs him]
30
Michael Corleone: He was stupid. I was lucky. I will visit him soon.
31
Michael Corleone: You heard what happened in my home? Frank Pentangeli: Mike, I almost died myself. We was all so relieved. Michael Corleone: In my home! [shouting] Michael Corleone: In my bedroom where my wife sleeps! Where my children come and play with their toys. In my home.
32
Senator Pat Geary: Mr. Cici, was there always a buffer involved? Willi Cici: A what? Senator Pat Geary: A buffer. Someone in between you and your possible superiors who passed on to you the actual order to kill someone. Willi Cici: Oh yeah, a buffer. The family had a lot of buffers!
33
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...
34
Tom Hagen: When a plot against the Emperor failed... the plotters were always given a chance... to let their families keep their fortunes. Right? Frank Pentangeli: Yeah, but only the rich guys, Tom. The little guys got knocked off and all their estates went to the Emperors. Unless they went home and killed themselves, then nothing happened. And the families... the families were taken care of. Tom Hagen: That was a good break. A nice deal. Frank Pentangeli: Yeah... 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.
35
Johnny Ola: Hyman Roth always makes money for his partners. One by one, our old friends are gone. Death, natural or not, prison, deported. Hyman Roth is the only one left, because he always made money for his partners.
36
Hyman Roth: I want you all to enjoy my cake, so uh... enjoy.
37
Tenor: Mama! Mamma mia!
38
Hyman Roth: I loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstien fixed the World Series in 1919.
39
Hyman Roth: I'd give four million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting
40
Hyman Roth: I don't trust a doctor who can hardly speak English.
41
[When asked by reporters why he has decided to move to Israel] Hyman Roth: I am a retired investor on a pension, and I wished to live there as a Jew in the twilight of my life.
42
Frank Pentangeli: I don't - I never knew no godfather. I got my own family, senator.
43
[flashback] Santino: Whatcha go to college? To get stupid? You're really stupid!
44
[Kay is threatening to take the children away] Michael: Don't you know that I would use all of my power to prevent something like that from happening?
45
[Before shooting occurs at the Michael Corleone estate] Kay: Michael, why are the drapes open?
46
[Don Ciccio is threatening to kill young Vito] Signora Andolini: But Vito is only nine. And dumb-witted. The child cannot harm you.
47
Tom Hagen: Why do you hurt me, Michael? I've always been loyal to you.
48
Connie: Michael, I hated you for so many years. I think that I did things to myself, to hurt myself so that you'd know - that I could hurt you. You were just being strong for all of us the way Papa was. And I forgive you. Can't you forgive Fredo? He's so sweet and helpless without you. You need me, Michael. I want to take care of you now.
49
Don Fanucci: 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!
50
Michael: I don't want anything to happen to him while my mother's alive.
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