Most-quoted character in The Godfather Part III (1990): in 33 of its 57 quotes
Most scenes with: Vincent Mancini (7), Kay (5)
My dear children: It is now better than several years since I moved to New York, and I haven't seen you as much as I would like to. I hope you will come to the ceremony of papal honors given for my charitable work. The only wealth in this world is children; more than all the money, power on earth, you are my treasure.
Michael Corleone Goodbye my old friend. You could have lived a little longer, I could be closer to my dream. You were so loved, Don Tommasino. Why was I so feared, and you so loved? What was it? I was no less honorable. I wanted to do good. What betrayed me? My mind? My heart? Why do I condemn myself so? I swear, on the lives of my children: Give me a chance to redeem myself, and I will sin, no more.
Michael Corleone Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in.
Michael Corleone Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement
Michael Corleone Never let anyone know what you are thinking.
Michael Corleone When they come, they'll come at what you love.
Michael Corleone Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.
Michael Corleone The higher I go, the crookeder it becomes.
Michael Corleone He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.
Michael Corleone Kay, I had a very different destiny planned for us.
Michael Corleone I would burn in hell to keep you safe.
Michael Corleone Nephew, from this moment on, call yourself Vincent Corleone.
Michael Corleone Father, I have sinned... I killed my brother... I killed my brother... I killed my mother's son... I killed my father's son...
Michael Corleone I spent my life protecting my son; I spent my life PROTECTING MY FAMILY!!
Michael Corleone Joey Zasa is nothing. He's a small-time enforcer. He bluffs, threats, but nothing. You can see him coming a mile away.
We should kill him before he kills ...
Michael Corleone No! Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
B.J. Harrison The Pope's doing exactly what you said he'd do, he's cleaning house.
Michael Corleone He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.
Michael Corleone If there is some guy running around this city saying, "**** Michael Corleone," what do we do with a piece of shit like that? He's a **** dog.
Yes it's true. If anyone would say such a thing, they would not be a friend. They would be a dog.
Treachery is everywhere.
Michael Corleone You still have your fingers on the strings, even now.
Michael Corleone You hate me.
I don't hate you Michael, I dread you.
It's not personal. It's business.
Michael Corleone Very well. You want to do business with me. I will do business with you.
Connie Now they'll fear you. Michael.
Michael Corleone Maybe they should fear YOU!
It's your favorite song, Michael, where you going?
Michael Corleone I'm just gonna go into the kitchen and listen to some Tony Bennett records.
Well you tell him from me, that he can live, or he can die.
Michael Corleone Vincent, will you SHUT UP?!
I am your son. Command me in all things.
Michael Corleone Give up my daughter. That is the price you pay for the life you choose.
The sicker you get, the wiser you get, huh?
Michael Corleone When I'm dead I'm gonna be really smart.
Michael Corleone You had a gun. They only had a knife. You could have talked them into surrendering. Turned them over to the police.
Hey, Uncle Mike, Zasa sent these guys I was just sending him a message that's all.
Michael Now he has to send you a message back.
Joey Zasa's gonna send me a message? Joey Zasa's gonna send me a message?
Connie Corleone-Rizzi Michael, he did the right thing. He got Zasa's name.
Michael What's Joey Zasa got to do this this? Joey Zasa's a patso. Joey Zasa. Alright, you are what you are. It's in your nature. From now on you stick close to me. You don't go anywhere, you don't do anything, you don't talk to anyone without checking with me first, understand?
Yeah.
Michael I've got problems with the commission, young man!
Yeah, I know.
Michael You don't make them any easier.
I know.
Michael Alright, go on. Get out of here.
Connie Michael.
Michael Yes.
Connie Now they'll fear you.
Michael Maybe they should fear you.
Michael Corleone You all know Joey Zasa. He is, I admit, an important man. His picture is on the cover of the New York Times Magazine. He gets the Esquire Magazine award for the best dressed gangster. [the assembled Dons laugh] The newspapers praise him because he hires the blacks into his family, which shows he has a good heart. Who knows, maybe someday he will make all of you popular.
It's true, I make more of a bella figura. That is my nature. But I also want to make a move into legitimate enterprises. I also want a pin from the Pope. Sure, I take the blacks and the Spanish into my family, because that's America.
Michael And you guarantee that they don't deal the drugs in those neighborhoods?
I don't guarantee that. I guarantee that I'll kill anyone who does.
Michael Who can refuse Don Altobello?
No! I say to all of you that I have been treated this day with no respect! I've made you all money. And I asked for little. Good. You won't give, I'll take! As for Don Corleone, he has made it very clear today that he is my enemy! You must choose between us. [storms out of the meeting]
Michael Corleone Joe Zasa would never pull something like this without backing. He doesn't have the wit for that helicopter attack. He doesn't even have the ambition to wipe out the whole Commission. Certainly not the balls.
I say we hit back and take Zasa out!
Michael Never let anyone know what you're thinking. [to Vincent, Connie and Neri] All right, let's get a ... let's get a message to Joey Zasa. I respect what he's done. The new overthrows the old, it's natural.
How can you do business with this guy?
Michael I'm a businessman, first and foremost. I want no conflict with anyone.
Well, you can tell him from me that he can live or he can die.
Michael Vincent, WILL YOU SHUT UP?!
Michael Corleone Don't ever again give that kind of order. Not while I'm alive. You understand?
Uncle Mike, it had to be done. You were too sick to make a decision. I got the go-ahead from Neri. I got the go-ahead from Connie.
Michael Connie.
It was the right thing to do.
Michael It was the wrong thing to do. I command this family, right or wrong. It was not what I WANTED! [composes himself for a beat] Understand?
Yes.
Al Neri Yes.
Connie Corleone-Rizzi Yes.
Michael Vincent, help me to my bed. I want to talk to you alone. [in his room] Your father, my brother...he and I. Opposites. But I never doubted his love. He would do anything for me. But his temper. It was too much. Clouded his judgement. I don't want to see the same thing happen to you.
Cardinal Lamberto Would you like to make your confession?
Michael Corleone Your eminence, I'm— It's been so long. I wouldn't know where to— It's been 30 years. I'd use up too much of your time, I think.
Lamberto I always have time to save souls.
Michael Oh, I'm beyond redemption.
Lamberto I hear the confessions of my own priests here. Sometimes the desire to confess is overwhelming, and we must seize the moment.
Michael What is the point of confessing if I don't repent?
Lamberto I hear you are a practical man. What have you got to lose, huh? Go on.
Michael I, uh... I betrayed my wife.
Lamberto Go on, my son.
Michael I betrayed myself. I killed men, and I ordered men to be killed.
Lamberto Go on, my son. Go on.
Michael Ah, it's useless.
Lamberto Go on, my son.
Michael I killed... I ordered the death of my brother. He injured me. [sobbing] I killed my mother's son. I killed my father's son!
Lamberto Your sins are terrible, and it is just that you suffer. Your life could be redeemed, but I know you do not believe that. You will not change. Ego te absolvo in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
Michael Corleone I spent a lot of time in this room, thinking of you.
And then you got married.
Michael I still thought of you.
Michael Corleone I want you to forgive me.
For what?
Michael Everything.
Like God, huh?
Michael I need something a little closer. You could never understand, back in those days. I loved my father. I swore I would never be a man like him, but I loved him, and he was in danger. What could I do? Then, later, you were in danger, our children were in danger. What could I do? You were all I loved and valued in the world, and now I'm losing you — I've lost you anyway, and it was all for nothing, so... You have to understand, I had a whole different destiny planned. Alright, I'll stop.
Michael I'm not the man you think I am.
I just don't know...
Michael I love you, Kay. You know, every night here in Sicily, I dream of my wife and my children, and how I lost them.
I guess, if it's any consolation, Michael... I want you to know that I've always loved you, and... and I always will.
I am your son. Command me in all things.
Michael Corleone Give up my daughter. It's the price you pay for the life you choose.
Done.
Michael Nephew, from this moment, call yourself Vincent Corleone.
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