A character in The Godfather Part II (1974)

Hyman Roth quotes from The Godfather Part II (1974)

Lee Strasberg

2nd most-quoted character in The Godfather Part II (1974): in 14 of its 70 quotes
Most scenes with: Michael Corleone (3)

A line from Hyman Roth

I'm going to take a nap. When I wake up, if the money is on the table, I'll know I have a partner. If it isn't, I'll know I don't.

More lines from Hyman Roth

10 quotes
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 - your 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!

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.

Hyman Roth

What I am saying is, we have now what we have always needed, real partnership with the government.

Hyman Roth

Stupid thugs. People behaving like that with guns.

Hyman Roth

Good health is the most important thing. More than success, more than money, more than power.

Hyman Roth

I want you all to enjoy your cake, so...enjoy.

Hyman Roth

I loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919.

Hyman Roth

I'd give four million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting.

Hyman Roth

I don't trust a doctor who can't speak English.

Hyman Roth
[When asked by reporters why he has decided to move to Israel]

I am a retired investor living on a pension, and I wished to live there as a Jew in the twilight of my life.

Scenes with Hyman Roth

3 scenes
[about the unrest in Cuba]

We saw a strange thing on our way here. Some rebels were being arrested, and instead of being arrested, one of them pulled the pin on a grenade he had hidden in his jacket. He took himself and the captain of the command with him. Now, the soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't.

Hyman Roth

What does that tell you?

They can win.

[while travelling the streets of Havana, Cuba, in late 1958]

I saw an interesting thing today. A rebel was being arrested, and rather than be taken alive, he pulled the pin on a grenade he had hidden in his jacket. He killed himself and the captain of the command.

Guest

Ah, the rebels are lunatics!

Maybe. But it occurred to me, the soldiers are paid to fight. The rebels aren't.

Hyman Roth

What does that tell you?

They can win.

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