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I'm gonna make him an offering he can't reject. Now, you just get exterior and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I want you, I desire you to leave information technology all to me.

Where does it say that you can't impale a cop? I'm talking near a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'1000 talking about a quack cop and a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. Information technology'south not personal, Sonny. Information technology'south strictly business.

Go out the gun. Have the cannoli.

The Godfather is a 1972 film about a Mafia criminal offense family and the outbreak of a New York Urban center gang war in the late 1940s.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Written past Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's novel.

An offer you lot can't decline.

Vito Corleone [edit]

• [to Bonasera] I want you to use all your powers, and all your skills. I don't want his mother to run across him this way. [pulls sheet to reveal Sonny'south bullet-ridden body] Look how they massacred my boy.

• I spent my whole life trying not to exist careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

• Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than than talent. It is more than than the regime. It is almost the equal of family.

• Yous cannot say "no" to the people yous dear, not ofttimes. That's the secret. And then when you practise, it has to sound similar a "yes" or you lot have to make them say "no." Y'all have to take time and trouble.

Peter Clemenza [edit]

• [to Rocco Lampone, after Rocco has killed Paulie Gatto] Go out the gun. Have the cannoli.

Moe Greene [edit]

• Son of a bowwow! Do you know who I am? I'one thousand Moe Greene! I made my basic when y'all were going out with cheerleaders!

Dialogue [edit]

Amerigo Bonasera: I believe in America. America has fabricated my fortune, and I raised my daughter in the American manner. I gave her freedom, simply I taught her never to dishonor her family unit. She establish a boyfriend, not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out late. I didn't protest. Two months agone he took her for a drive, with some other boy friend. They made her potable whiskey and then they tried to take reward of her. She resisted. She kept her honor, so they beat her similar an animal. When I went to the infirmary her nose was broken. Her jaw was shattered, held together by wire. She couldn't fifty-fifty weep because of the pain, but I wept. Why did I weep? She was the light of my life. A beautiful girl. Now she will never be cute once more. [sobs] Deplorable. I went to the police force, similar a good American. These 2 boys were brought to trial. The gauge sentenced them to three years in prison house, and suspended the judgement. Suspended sentence! They went complimentary that very twenty-four hour period! I stood in the courtroom similar a fool, and those 2 bastards, they smiled at me. Then I said to my married woman, "For justice, nosotros must go to Don Corleone."

Don Vito Corleone: Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?

Bonasera: What exercise you want of me? Tell me annihilation, merely do what I beg you lot to do.

Vito: What is that?

Bonasera: [whispering in Vito'south ear] I want them expressionless.

Vito: That I cannot do.

Bonasera: I will requite you anything you ask.

Vito: We've known each other many years, simply this is the first time you ever came to me for counsel or for help. I can't retrieve the terminal time that you invited me to your firm for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your simply child. But let'due south exist frank hither. You never wanted my friendship and, uh, you were afraid to be in my debt.

Bonasera: I didn't want to get into trouble.

Vito: I understand. Y'all plant paradise in America, you had a good trade, you made a good living, the police force protected you, and there were courts of law. You lot didn't need a friend like me. But, at present you come to me, and you say: "Don Corleone, give me justice." But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer friendship. You lot don't even think to phone call me Godfather. Instead, you come up into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you enquire me to do murder for money.

Bonasera: I enquire for justice.

Vito: That is not justice. Your daughter is nevertheless alive.

Bonasera: Let them suffer then, as she suffers. How much shall I pay you?

Vito: Bonasera, Bonasera. What have I ever done to brand you treat me then disrespectfully? If you'd come to me in friendship, so that scum that ruined your daughter would exist suffering this very 24-hour interval. And if by chance an honest human being like yourself should brand enemies, and then they would get my enemies. And then they would fear y'all.

Bonasera: Be my friend, Godfather. [kisses Vito's hand]

Vito: Expert. Someday—and that mean solar day may never come—I'll call upon you to do a service for me. Simply until that 24-hour interval, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter's wedding mean solar day.

Bonasera: Grazie, Godfather.

Vito: Prego. [Bonasera leaves, and Don Corleone turns to Tom] Give this to, uh, Clemenza. I want reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried away. Subsequently all, we're not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker thinks.

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Michael Corleone: Well, when Johnny was beginning starting out, he was signed to this personal service contract with a large band leader. And as his career got better and improve, he wanted to leave of information technology. Now, Johnny is my begetter's godson. And my male parent went to see this band leader, and he offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go. Merely the band leader said no. And so the side by side twenty-four hour period, my begetter went to see him, just this time with Luca Brasi. And within an 60 minutes, he signed a release, for a certified bank check for $ane,000.

Kay: How'd he practice that?

Michael: My begetter made him an offer he couldn't reject.

Kay: What was that?

Michael: Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my begetter assured him that either his brains - or his signature - would exist on the contract. That'southward a truthful story. That's my family, Kay. It's not me.

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Johnny Fontane: A calendar month agone, he [Woltz] bought the movie rights to this book, a all-time-seller, and the chief character, it'south a guy just like me. I, uh, I wouldn't even have to human activity, merely exist myself. [choking up] Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.

Don Vito Corleone: [shaking Johnny] You can act like a man! [He slaps Johnny.] What's the matter with you? Is this how you turned out, a Hollywood finocchio that cries like a woman? "Eheheh! What can I exercise? What can I do?" What is that nonsense? Ridiculous. You spend time with your family?

Johnny: Sure I exercise.

Vito: Practiced, because a homo who doesn't spend fourth dimension with his family can never be a real man. Come here. You wait terrible. I want you to eat. I desire yous to residue a while, and in a month from at present, this Hollywood bigshot'southward gonna give yous what you want.

Johnny: Information technology'due south too late, they start shooting in a week.

Vito: I'thou gonna brand him an offer he can't refuse. At present, you simply go outside and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I want you, I desire yous to go out it all to me.

• The line in assuming is ranked #2 in American Film Plant's list of the height 100 movie quotations.

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Vito Corleone: [to Sollozzo] I must say no to you, and I'll requite you my reasons. It'south true, I have a lot of friends in politics, only they wouldn't exist friendly very long if they knew my business was drugs instead of gambling, which they regard equally a – a harmless vice. But drugs is a dingy business organisation. Information technology makes, it doesn't make any departure to me what a man does for a living, understand. Just your business is, uh, a piddling dangerous.

Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo: If yous're worried about security for your million, the Tattaglias volition guarantee it.

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: Oh, you lot're telling me that the Tattaglias guarantee our investment?

Vito: Wait a infinitesimal. I accept a sentimental weakness for my children, and I spoil them, every bit you lot can meet. They talk when they should mind. Simply anyway, Signor Sollozzo, my "no" is final and I wish to congratulate you on your new business. I know you lot'll practise very well, and skilful luck to y'all, particularly since your interests don't disharmonize with mine. Thank you. [Sollozzo leaves] Santino, come here. What's the matter with you? I retrieve your brain's going soft from all that comedy you're playing with that young girl. Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again.

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Virgil "the Turk" Sollozzo: Your boss is dead. I know you're not in the muscle-cease of the family unit, Tom, then I don't want you lot to exist scared. I want you to assist the Corleones, and I want y'all to help me. [easily Tom a drink.] Aye, we got him exterior his office just about an hour after we picked yous up. Drink it. So now information technology's upwards to y'all to make the peace between me and Sonny. Sonny was hot for my idea, wasn't he? And you knew it was the correct matter to practise.

Tom Hagen: Sonny'll come after yous with everything he's got.

Sollozzo: That'll be his get-go reaction, sure. That's why you gotta talk some sense into him. The Tattaglia family is behind me with all their people. The other New York families volition go along with anything that will preclude a full-scale war. Let's face it, Tom, and all due respect, the Don, rest in peace, was slipping. X years ago, could I have gotten to him? Well, now, he'due south dead. He's dead, Tom, and nothing can bring him back, then you gotta talk to Sonny. You gotta talk to the caporegimes, that Tessio and that fat Clemenza. It's good business concern, Tom.

Tom: I'll try, just even Sonny won't be able to telephone call off Luca Brasi.

Sollozzo: Yep, well, allow me worry about Luca. You simply talk to Sonny and the other two kids.

Tom: I'll do my best.

Sollozzo: Proficient. Now, you lot can go. I don't similar violence, Tom. I'one thousand a business man. Blood is a big expense. [receives news from an arriving car] He's notwithstanding alive. They hitting him with v shots, and he's still live! Well, that's bad luck for me, and bad luck for you if you don't make that bargain!

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[Sonny opens a package to notice 2 fish wrapped in Luca's bulletproof vest.]

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: What the hell is this?

Salvatore Tessio: It's a Sicilian message. Information technology ways Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

• Annotation: The line in assuming was nominated for the American Film Plant's list of the top 100 motion-picture show quotations.

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Michael: Who are you?

Enzo: I am Enzo, the baker. You remember me?

Michael: Enzo.

Enzo: Yes, Enzo.

Michael: Yous'd better get out of here, Enzo, at that place's gonna exist problem.

Enzo: If there is trouble, I'll stay here to help you. For your father. For your father.

Michael: Heed. Expect for me outside in front of the hospital, all correct? I'll exist out in a minute. Go alee.

Enzo: OK, OK.

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Tom Hagen: This is business, not personal!

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: They shot my father. It's business, your ass!

Tom: Fifty-fifty shooting your begetter was business, non personal, Sonny!

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Michael Corleone: They wanna have a meeting with me, right? Information technology will be me - McCluskey - and Sollozzo. Let'southward set the coming together. Go our informers to find out where it's gonna be held. Now, we insist it's a public place, a bar, a eating place, some place where there's people so I feel safe. They're gonna search me when I start encounter them, right? So I can't accept a weapon on me and then. But if Clemenza tin can figure a way, to have a weapon planted there for me, and then I'll kill 'em both.

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: [laughing, along with the others] Hey, what are ya gonna practice, nice college boy, eh? Didn't want to become mixed up in the family business huh? At present you wanna gun down a law captain. Why? Because he slapped you in the face up a piddling flake? Hah? What practise you lot call up this is, the Army? Where y'all shoot 'em a mile abroad? You've gotta become up shut like this and bada-bing! Y'all blow their brains all over your overnice Ivy League suit. [He kisses Michael'due south head.] You lot're taking this very personal.

Michael: Where does it say that you can't impale a cop? I'g talking most a cop that's mixed upwards in drugs. I'thou talking nigh a dishonest cop and a crooked cop who got mixed upwardly in the rackets and got what was coming to him. It'south non personal, Sonny. It's strictly business.

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Peter Clemenza: [shows Michael a revolver] This is as cold equally they come, impossible to trace, so you don't worry about prints, Mike. I put a special tape on the trigger and the butt. Here, try information technology. [Michael takes the revolver] What'sa affair? The trigger too tight?

Michael Corleone: No. [He fires] Ah, my ears.

Clemenza: Yeah, I left it noisy. That way, information technology scares any pain-in-the-ass innocent bystanders away. All right, you shot 'em both. Now what do you lot do?

Michael: Sit down, finish my dinner.

Clemenza: Come on, kid. Don't fool around. Just let your manus driblet to your side, and permit the gun slip out. Everybody'll still call up you lot got it. They're gonna be staring at your face, Mike, so walk out of the place real fast, but don't run. Don't look nobody straight in the eye, but you don't look away either. Eh, they're gonna be scared strong of yous, believe me, and so don't worry about nothing. You know, you gonna turn out all right. Y'all take a long vacation, nobody knows where, and nosotros gonna catch the hell.

Michael: How bad do you call up information technology's gonna be?

Clemenza: Pretty god-damn bad. Probably, all the other families volition line upwards against u.s.. That'southward all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to go rid of the bad claret. Been 10 years since the terminal one. Y'all know, you gotta cease 'em at the beginning, similar they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich. They should never have permit him become abroad with that. They was just asking for large problem. Yous know, Mike, nosotros was all proud of you, existence a hero and all. Your father, likewise.

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Fabrizio: [in Sicilian, upon seeing Apollonia] Mamma mia, what a beauty.

[Apollonia says something in Sicilian and is startled to run into the 3 men watching her. She and Michael exchange looks.]

Fabrizio: [to Michael, in Sicilian] I remember you got striking by the thunderbolt.

Calo: [in Sicilian] In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

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Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Did y'all have a good hunt?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] You lot know all the girls around hither? We saw some real beauties. I of them struck our friend like a thunderbolt. She would tempt the devil himself. Really put together. Such hair, such mouth!

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] The girls around here are cute only virtuous.

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] This ane had a purple dress and a regal ribbon in her hair. A type more than Greek than Italian. Do you know her?

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] No! In that location'due south no girl like that in his town.

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] My God, I empathise! [gets up to expect at the cafe.]

Michael Corleone: [to Calo, in Sicilian] What's incorrect?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] Permit's go. Information technology's his daughter.

Michael: [in Sicilian] Tell him to come up here. Call him. Fabrizio, you interpret.

Fabrizio: Si, signor.

Michael: [with Fabrizio translating] I apologize if I offended y'all. I'm a stranger in this state and I meant no disrespect, to you lot or your girl. I'grand an American hiding in Sicily. My proper noun is Michael Corleone. At that place are people who'd pay a lot of money for that information, but so your daughter would lose a father instead of gaining a married man. I want to meet your daughter with your permission and under the supervision of your family unit with all respect.

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Come to my firm Lord's day morning. My proper noun is Vitelli.

Michael Grazie. [in Sicilian] What's her proper name?

Vitelli: Apollonia.

Michael: Bene.

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Don Vito Corleone: [sees Tom Hagen with a beverage] Give me a drib. My wife is crying upstairs. I hear cars coming to the business firm. Consigliere of mine, I think you should tell your Don what everyone seems to know.

Tom Hagen: I didn't tell Mama anything. I was about to come up and wake you and tell you.

Vito: Just you needed a drink offset.

Tom: Yeah.

Vito: Well, now you've had your drink.

Tom: They shot Sonny on the causeway. He's dead.

Vito: I want no inquiries made. I desire no acts of vengeance. I want you to suit a meeting with the heads of the Five Families. This war stops now.

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Don Vito Corleone: [to the heads of the Five Families] How did things ever get so far? I don't know. It was so unfortunate, then unnecessary. Tattaglia lost a son and I lost a son. We're quits, and if Tattaglia agrees, and so I'm willing to let things go on the fashion they were before.

Don Emilio Barzini: We're all grateful to Don Corleone for calling this meeting. We all know him as a man of his word. A modest homo who will always mind to reason.

Don Phillip Tattaglia: Yeah, Barzini, he is too modest. He had all the judges and politicians in his pocket, and refused to share them.

Vito: When? When did I ever pass up an adaptation? All of you know me here. When did I always decline, except ane time? And why? Because I believe this drug business is gonna destroy us in the years to come. I hateful, it's not like gambling or liquor, even women, which is something that most people desire nowadays and it'southward forbidden to them by the pezzonovantes in the church. Even the police departments have helped us in the past with gambling and other things. They're gonna refuse to assist united states of america when it comes to narcotics. And I believed that and so, and I believe that now.

Barzini: Times have inverse. It'due south non like the erstwhile days when nosotros could do anything nosotros want. A refusal is not the human action of a friend. Don Corleone had all the judges and the politicians in New York, and he must share them. He must permit us depict the h2o from the well. Certainly, he can present a neb for such services. Subsequently all, we are not Communists!

Zaluchi: I also don't believe in drugs. For years I paid my people extra and then they wouldn't do that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, "I have powders. If y'all put up three, iv thousand dollar investment, nosotros tin can brand fifty thousand distributing." So they tin can't resist. I want to control information technology as a concern, to continue it respectable. I don't desire it nearly schools! I don't want information technology sold to children! That's an infamia. In my metropolis, we would keep the traffic in the dark people, the coloreds. They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.

Vito: I hoped that we would come up here and reason together. And as a reasonable man, I'm willing to do whatever is necessary to discover a peaceful solution to these problems.

Barzini: So nosotros are agreed. The traffic in drugs volition be permitted, simply controlled, and Don Corleone volition give us protection in the east, and there will exist the peace.

Tattaglia: Simply I must have strict balls from Corleone. As time goes by and his position becomes stronger, will he attempt whatsoever individual vendetta?

Barzini: Look, we are all reasonable men here. Nosotros don't have to requite assurances as if nosotros were lawyers.

Vito: You talk virtually vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to yous or my boy to me? I forgo the vengeance on my son. But I have selfish reasons. My youngest son was forced to get out this country because of all this Solozzo business concern. All right. Now I have to brand arrangements to bring him back hither safely, simply I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall him—if he should go shot in the caput by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell, or if he'due south struck by a bolt of lightning—and then I'grand going to arraign some of the people in this room. And that, I do not forgive. 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 that we take made here today.

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Tom Hagen: When I meet with the Tattaglia people, should I insist that all his drug middlemen take clean records?

Don Vito Corleone: Mention it. Don't insist. Barzini is a man who'll know that without being told.

Tom: You mean Tattaglia?

Vito: Tattaglia's a pimp. He never could've outfought Santino, but I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along.

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Michael Corleone: I'm working for my male parent now. He'due south been sick, very ill.

Kay Adams: Merely y'all're not similar him, Michael. I thought yous weren't going to go a human like your male parent. That's what you told me.

Michael: My father'southward no different than any other powerful man – any man who's responsible for other people, like a senator or a president.

Kay: [laughs] You know how naïve you sound?

Michael: Why?

Kay: Senators and presidents don't have men killed.

Michael: Oh, who's existence naïve, Kay? Kay, my male parent's style of doing things is over, it's finished. Even he knows that. I mean, in v years, the Corleone family is going to exist completely legitimate. Trust me. That's all I can tell yous about my business concern.

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Moe Greene: We had a little argument, Freddy and I, then I had to straighten him out.

Michael Corleone: Yous straightened my brother out?

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Fredo Corleone: Mike! You lot don't come to Las Vegas and talk to a man like Moe Greene similar that!

Michael Corleone: Fredo, y'all're my older blood brother, and I love you lot, only don't ever have sides with anyone confronting the family unit again, always.

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Don Vito Corleone: I knew that Santino was gonna take to go through all this, and Fredo, well, Fredo was... just I never—I never wanted this for you. I worked my whole life—I don't apologize—to accept care of my family unit. And I refused to be a fool dancing on a cord held by all of those big shots. I don't apologize. That'southward my life, only I thought that when it was your time, that you would exist the one to hold the strings. Senator Corleone. Governor Corleone. Something.

Michael Corleone: Another pezzonovante.

Vito: Well, there wasn't enough fourth dimension, Michael. Wasn't enough fourth dimension.

Michael: We'll become there, Pop. We'll go at that place.

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Salvatore "Sal" Tessio: I hope Mike can get us a good deal.

Tom Hagen: I'm sure he volition.

William "Willy" Cicci: Sal, Tom? Boss says he'll come in a separate car. He says for you ii to continue ahead.

Salvatore "Sal" Tessio: Hell, he can't practise that. Information technology screws up all my arrangements!

Cicci: Well, that's what he said.

Tom: I can't become either, Sal.

[Several button men close in effectually Tessio]

Sal: Tell Mike it was just business organisation. I always liked him.

Tom: He understands that.

Cicci: 'Scuse me, Sal

Sal: Tom, can you get me off the hook, for quondam time's sake?

Tom: Can't practice information technology, Emerge.

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[While Carlo dials the telephone, Michael Corleone enters the room with Tom Hagen, Al Neri and Rocco Lampone. Carlo turns and looks at Michael's new inner circle]

Michael Corleone: You take to answer for Santino, Carlo.

Carlo Rizzi: Mike, you've got information technology all wrong!

Michael: You fingered Sonny for the Barzini people. Ah, that lilliputian farce you played with my sis. Did you think that would fool a Corleone?

Carlo: Mike, I'm innocent. I swear on my kids. Please don't do this to me, Mike.

Michael: Sit down.

Carlo: Please don't practice this. Please.

Michael: Barzini's dead. And then is Phillip Tattaglia, Moe Greene, Stracci, Cuneo. Today, I settle all family business, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo. Admit what you did. [Carlo breaks down] Get him a drink. Come up on. Don't be afraid, Carlo. Come up on. Yous retrieve I'd make my sister a widow? I'k Godfather to your son, Carlo. [Gives Carlo a potable] Get alee, drinkable. Drink. No, Carlo, you're out of the family concern, that's your punishment. We're finished. I'm putting y'all on a airplane to Vegas. Tom? [Tom produces a plane ticket] I want y'all to stay there, understand? Just, don't tell me y'all're innocent, because it insults my intelligence. It makes me very aroused. Now who approached you: Tattaglia or Barzini?

Carlo: It was Barzini.

Michael: Good. In that location'south a car waiting for you outside, information technology'll take you to the airdrome. I'll call your wife and tell her what flight you're on.

Carlo: Mike, it was—

Michael: Keep. Get out of my sight.

[Carlo gets in the auto and notices Clemenza sitting behind him]

Peter Clemenza: Hey, Carlo. [strangles Carlo]

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[Connie has only accused Michael of having Carlo killed]

Michael Corleone: She's hysterical. Hysterical.

Kay Corleone: Michael, is it true?

Michael: Don't ask me about my business, Kay.

Kay: Is it truthful?

Michael: Don't ask me almost my business concern.

Kay: No!

Michael: [slaps the desk] Plenty! All right, this i time. This one fourth dimension, I'll let you lot ask me about my affairs.

Kay: Is it truthful? Is information technology?

Michael: No.

Kay: I guess nosotros both need a beverage, huh? Come on.

Peter Clemenza: [kissing Michael's hand as the door closes on Kay] Don Corleone!

Cast [edit]

• Marlon Brando – Don Vito Corleone
• Al Pacino – Michael Corleone
• James Caan – Santino "Sonny" Corleone
• Robert Duvall – Tom Hagen
• Diane Keaton – Kay Adams
• Abe Vigoda – Sal Tessio
• Sterling Hayden – Captain McCluskey
• Talia Shire – Connie Corleone Rizzi
• Gianni Russo – Carlo Rizzi
• John Cazale – Fredo Corleone
• Richard Castellano – Pete Clemenza
• Jack Marley – Jack Woltz
• Al Lettieri – Virgil "the Turk" Solozzo
• Alex Rocco – Moe Greene
• Richard Conte – Don Emilio Barzini
• Louis Guss – Don Joe Zaluchi
• Al Martino – Johnny Fontane
• Lenny Montana – Luca Brasi
• Victor Rendina – Philip Tattaglia

Come across besides [edit]

• The Godfather: Part II
• The Godfather: Part III

External links [edit]

howlettpentat.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Godfather

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