Most scenes together: Michael Corleone & Vincent Mancini (7), Michael Corleone & Kay (5)
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.
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!
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?
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.
Vincent, WILL YOU SHUT UP?!
You hate me.
I don't hate you Michael, I dread you.
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 ...
No! Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
Don Lucchesi, you are a man of finance and politics. These things I don't understand.
You understand guns?
Yes.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
I am your son. Command me in all things.
Give up my daughter. It's the price you pay for the life you choose.
Done.
Nephew, from this moment, call yourself Vincent Corleone.
I am your son. Command me in all things.
Give up my daughter. That is the price you pay for the life you choose.
Well you tell him from me, that he can live, or he can die.
Vincent, will you SHUT UP?!
You like to gamble? Why don't we go to Atlantic City? My town. I'll show you how to gamble.
Grace Hamilton Yeah, but I like to win. How will I know what numbers to pick?
Do I look like a guy who's gonna lose?
I want you to forgive me.
For what?
Everything.
Like God, huh?
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.
I'm not the man you think I am.
I just don't know...
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.
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.
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.
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]
I spent a lot of time in this room, thinking of you.
And then you got married.
I still thought of you.
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.
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.
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.
I've got problems with the commission, young man!
Yeah, I know.
You don't make them any easier.
I know.
Alright, go on. Get out of here.
Connie Michael.
Yes.
Connie Now they'll fear you.
Maybe they should fear you.
He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.
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.
