The Godfather Part II Quotes

The Godfather Part II is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . The Godfather Part II completed its run in 1970.

It features Francis Ford Coppola as producer, Nino Rota in charge of musical score, and Gordon Willis as head of cinematography.

The Godfather Part II is recorded in English, and Sicilian and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Godfather Part II is 200 minutes long. The Godfather Part II is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, Robert De Niro as Vito Corleone, Lee Strasberg as Hyman Roth, Marianna Hill as Kay Corleone, Giuseppe Sillato as Don Ciccio, Franco Corsaro as Genco Abbandando, John Cazale as Fredo Corleone, G. D. Spradlin as Senator Pat Geary, Michael V. Gazzo as Frank Pentangeli, Tom Rosqui as Rocco Lampone, Talia Shire as Connie, Al Pacino as Michael, Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen, Carmine Caridi as Santino, Richard Bright as Al Neri, Marianna Hill as Anthony Corleone, Dominic Chianese as Johnny Ola, Gastone Moschin as Don Fanucci, Diane Keaton as Kay, Joe Spinell as Willi Cici, Carmine Caridi as Carmine Rosato, and Danny Aiello as Tony Rosato.

The Godfather Part II Quotes

Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen

• (Robert Duvall) "It would be like trying to kill the President; there's no way we can get to him."
• (Al Pacino) "Tom, you know you surprise me. If anything in this life is certain; if history has taught us anything; it's that you can kill anybody."

• (Robert Duvall) "When a plot against the Emperor failed -- the plotters were always given a chance -- to let their families keep their fortunes. Right?"
• (Michael V. Gazzo) "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."
• (Robert Duvall) "That was a good break. A nice deal."
• (Michael V. Gazzo) "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."

• (Robert Duvall) "Why do you hurt me, Michael? I've always been loyal to you."

John Cazale as Fredo Corleone

• (John Cazale) "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."

• (John Cazale) "You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish. You believe that? It's true, that's the secret. You wanna try it when we go out on the lake?"

• (John Cazale) "I'm your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over."
• (Al Pacino) "That's the way Pop wanted it."
• (John Cazale) "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."

G. D. Spradlin as Senator Pat Geary

• (G. D. Spradlin) "Freddie, that thing can't be real."
• (John Cazale) "Sure it is. That's why they call him Superman."

• (G. D. Spradlin) "I want your answer and the money by noon tomorrow. And one more thing. Don't you contact me again, ever. From now on, you deal with Turnbull."
• (Al Pacino) "Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally."

• (G. D. Spradlin) "I despise your masquerade, the dishonest way you pose yourself. You and your whole f***ing family."
• (Al Pacino) "We're both part of the same hypocrisy, senator, but never think it applies to my family."

• (G. D. Spradlin) "You can have the license. The price is $250,000 -- plus a monthly payment of 5% of the gross -- of all four hotels -- Mr. Corleone"
• (Al Pacino) "Now, the price of the license is less than $20,000. Is that correct?"
• (G. D. Spradlin) "Yes."
• (Al Pacino) "So why would I ever consider paying more than that?"
• (G. D. Spradlin) "Because I intend to squeeze you."

Al Pacino as Michael Corleone

• (Al Pacino) "If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone."

• (Al Pacino) "Don't you know that I would use all of my power to prevent something like that from happening?"

• (Al Pacino) "He was stupid. I was lucky. I will visit him soon."

• (Al Pacino) "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."
• (Lee Strasberg) "What does that tell you?"
• (Al Pacino) "They could win."

• (Al Pacino) "You heard what happened in my home?"
• (Michael V. Gazzo) "Mike, I almost died myself. We was all so relieved --"
• (Al Pacino) "In my HOME. IN MY BEDROOM WHERE MY WIFE SLEEPS. Where my children come and play with their toys. In my home."

• (Al Pacino) "I don't want anything to happen to him while my mother's alive."

• (Al Pacino) "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?"

• (Al Pacino) "C'mon Frankie -- my father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth."
• (Michael V. Gazzo) "Your father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth -- but he never trusted Hyman Roth."

• (Al Pacino) "He's has been dying from the same heart attack for the last twenty years."

• (Al Pacino) "I'll change; I'll change. I've learned that I have the strength to change."

• (Al Pacino) "I've always taken care of you Fredo."
• (John Cazale) "Taken care of me? You're my kid brother and you take care of me? Did you ever think about that, huh? Did you ever ONCE think about that? "Send Fredo off to do this; Send Fredo off to do that." "Let Fredo take care of some Mickey Mouse nightclub somewhere." "Send Fredo to pick somebody up at the airport." I'm your older brother Mike and I was stepped over."

• (Al Pacino) "I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies."

• (Al Pacino) "My father taught me many things here; he taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."

• (Al Pacino) "Anthony, I'm going to be leaving very early tomorrow."
• (Marianna Hill) "Will you take me?"
• (Al Pacino) "No, I can't."
• (Marianna Hill) "Why do you have to go?"
• (Al Pacino) "Because I have to do business."
• (Marianna Hill) "I could help you."
• (Al Pacino) "Someday you will."

• (Al Pacino) "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart."

• (Al Pacino) "Keep 'em alive."
• (Tom Rosqui) "We'll try."
• (Al Pacino) "ROCCO. ALIVE."

• (Al Pacino) "I trust these men with my life, Senator. To ask them to leave would be an insult."

Carmine Caridi as Carmine Rosato

• (Carmine Caridi) "We're all very happy about your decision, Frankie. You're not going to regret it."
• (Michael V. Gazzo) "I don't like this C-note, Rosato. I take that as an insult."
• (Danny Aiello) "Michael Corleone says "Hello"."
• (Danny Aiello) "Get his head in. Close the f***in' door."
• (Carmine Caridi) "Your friend, the cop, what the f --"
• (Policeman) "Hey, Rich, it's dark in here. You open or closed?"
• (Bartender) "Hey, I just came in to clean up a little, you know? What's wrong?"
• (Policeman) "Is that something on the floor?"
• (Bartender) "Carmine, No. Not here. Not a cop. Let him go."
• (Carmine Caridi) "ANTHONY."
• (Danny Aiello) "You open your f***in' mouth, I'll blow your head off."

• (Carmine Caridi) "Whatcha go to college? To get stupid? You're really stupid."

• (Carmine Caridi) "Your country ain't your blood. Remember that."

Lee Strasberg as Hyman Roth

• (Lee Strasberg) "I don't trust a doctor who can hardly speak English."

• (Lee Strasberg) "I loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstien fixed the World Series in 1919."

• (Lee Strasberg) "I want all of you to enjoy your cake, so -- enjoy."

• (Lee Strasberg) "I'm going in to take a nap. When I wake, if the money's on the table, I'll know I have a partner. If it isn't, I'll know I don't."

• (Lee Strasberg) "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 god**** 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."

• (Lee Strasberg) "What I am saying is, we have now what we have always needed, real partnership with the government."

• (Lee Strasberg) "I'm a retired investor living on a pension. I came home to vote in the Presidential Election because they wouldn't give me an absentee ballot."

• (Lee Strasberg) "I'd give four million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting"

• (Lee Strasberg) "This is the business we've chosen."

• (Lee Strasberg) "Good health is the most important thing. More than success, more than money, more than power."

Michael V. Gazzo as Frank Pentangeli

• (Michael V. Gazzo) "Cicc', a porta."

• (Michael V. Gazzo) "Those were the great old days,you know -- And we was like the Roman Empire -- The Corleone family was like the Roman Empire --"

Dominic Chianese as Johnny Ola

• (Dominic Chianese) "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."

Franco Corsaro as Genco Abbandando

• (Franco Corsaro) "So, what do you think of my angel?"
• (Robert De Niro) "You're happy, I'm happy."

• (Franco Corsaro) "Vito, how do you like my little angel? Isn't she beautiful?"
• (Robert De Niro) "She's very beautiful. To you, she's beautiful. For me, there's only my wife and son."

Talia Shire as Connie

• (Talia Shire) "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."

Danny Aiello as Tony Rosato

• (Danny Aiello) "Michael Corleone says "Hello"."

Gastone Moschin as Don Fanucci

• (Gastone Moschin) "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."

Giuseppe Sillato as Don Ciccio

• (Giuseppe Sillato) "I see you took the name of the town. What was your father's name?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Antonio Andolini."
• (Giuseppe Sillato) "You'll have to speak up. I can't hear you"
• (Robert De Niro) "My father's name was Antonio Andolini -- and this is for you."

Robert De Niro as Vito Corleone

• (Robert De Niro) "Michael, your father loves you very much. Very much."

• (Robert De Niro) "Do me this favor. I won't forget it. Ask your friends in the neighborhood about me. They'll tell you I know how to return a favor."

Richard Bright as Al Neri

• (Richard Bright) "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."
• (Robert Duvall) "He'll try Panama next."
• (Al Pacino) "Panama won't take him. Not for a million, not for ten million."

Marianna Hill as Anthony Corleone

• (Marianna Hill) "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."
• (Marianna Hill) "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."
• (Al Pacino) "Bitch. You won't take my children."
• (Marianna Hill) "I will."
• (Al Pacino) "You WON'T TAKE MY CHILDREN."
• (Marianna Hill) "They're my children too."

Diane Keaton as Kay

• (Diane Keaton) "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."
• (Al Pacino) "I know. I'm trying, darling."

• (Diane Keaton) "Michael, why are the drapes open?"

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