43+ Best Michael Corleone Quotes, The Godfather
About Michael Corleone
Who is Michael Corleone? Michael Corleone is a fictional character in The Godfather, book, and film. Michael is the youngest son of Vito Corleone, head of the Corleone family Mafia business.
Michael is a major figure in the first two books in Francis Ford Coppola’s film series. In the film, he is played by Al Pacino. He is portrayed as an Italian-American mobster and the protagonist of the film. Michael’s father, Vito Corleone, is the Don of the Corleone crime family.
Michael’s older brother, Sonny Corleone, is greatly admired by their father. However, Sonny is eventually killed and Michael becomes heir apparent to the Mafia throne. Michael later succeeds his father as Don, becoming the leader of the crime family.
Michael Corleone is the protagonist in Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather. As the youngest son of Vito Corleone, Michael is the heir to both his father’s criminal organization and the family’s Sicilian roots. He is reserved, intelligent and calculating, but often leaves a violent path of destruction in his wake.
Michael Corleone Quotes, The Godfather
Fredo, you’re nothing to me now. You’re not a brother. You’re not a friend. I don’t wanna know you or what you do. I don’t wanna 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? – Michael Corleone.
What about now? Is there anything you can help me out with? Anything you can tell me now? – Michael Corleone.
We have Time. -Michael Corleone.
I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse. -Michael Corleone.
Baptism of fire. -Michael Corleone.
You and Fredo working together is like Abbott and Costello, except Abbott’s a little smarter. – Michael Corleone, to Fredo Corleone (character).
She doesn’t understand it’s an act of charity. – Michael Corleone.
I feel, Tom, that in my younger years I was not as sensitive as I should have been about people – like you – who carried a heavy burden and were unappreciated. A man who grows up like me takes things for granted… huge incomes, servants to wait on him hand and foot, never having to worry about anything at all. But now I’m older… I have a family of my own… and when I see you and Connie and all of the other people who’ve had to struggle so hard just to keep food in their mouths, I realize how selfish I’ve been. – Michael Corleone.
Don’t worry about it. It’s a Sicilian message. – Michael Corleone, to Tom Hagen (character).
I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse. – Michael Corleone.
You and Fredo working together is like Abbott and Costello, except Abbott’s a little smarter. – Michael Corleone, to Fredo Corleone (character).
I feel, Tom, that in my younger years I was not as sensitive as I should have been about people – like you – who carried a heavy burden and were unappreciated. A man who grows up like me takes things for granted… huge incomes, servants to wait on him hand and foot, never having to worry about anything at all. But now I’m older… I have a family of my own… and when I see you and Connie and all of the other people who’ve had to struggle so hard just to keep food in their mouths, I realize how selfish I’ve been. – Michael Corleone.
Don’t worry about it. It’s a Sicilian message. – Michael Corleone, to Tom Hagen (character).
You and Fredo working together is like Abbott and Costello, except Abbott’s a little smarter. – Michael Corleone, to Fredo Corleone (character).
I feel, Tom, that in my younger years I was not as sensitive as I should have been about people – like you – who carried a heavy burden and were unappreciated. A man who grows up like me takes things for granted… huge incomes, servants to wait on him hand and foot, never having to worry about anything at all. But now I’m older… I have a family of my own… and when I see you and Connie and all of the other people who’ve had to struggle so hard just to keep food in their mouths, I realize how selfish I’ve been. – Michael Corleone.
Baptism of fire. – Michael Corleone.
For the past fifteen years, I’ve been trying to expand or protect this business with violence. If it comes down to a choice between us and these people, you’re gonna have to decide which family you realize is more important. – Michael Corleone.
Don’t worry about it. It’s a Sicilian message. – Michael Corleone, to Tom Hagen (character).
The Gods are great, but they don’t give us more than we can handle.- Michael Corleone
I feel, Tom, that in my younger years I was not as sensitive as I should have been about people – like you – who carried a heavy burden and were unappreciated. A man who grows up like me takes things for granted… huge incomes, servants to wait on him hand and foot, never having to worry about anything at all. But now I’m older… I have a family of my own… and when I see you and Connie and all of the other people who’ve had to struggle so hard just to keep food in their mouths, I realize how selfish I’ve been. – Michael Corleone.
Don’t worry about it. It’s a Sicilian message. – Michael Corleone, to Tom Hagen (character).
I feel, Tom, that in my younger years I was not as sensitive as I should have been about people – like you – who carried a heavy burden and were unappreciated. A man who grows up like me takes things for granted… huge incomes, servants to wait on him hand and foot, never having to worry about anything at all. But now I’m older… I have a family of my own… and when I see you and Connie and all of the other people who’ve had to struggle so hard just to keep food in their mouths, I realize how selfish I’ve been. – Michael Corleone.
People like me don’t walk the earth anymore. We own it. – Michael Corleone
Don’t worry about it. It’s a Sicilian message. – Michael Corleone, to Tom Hagen (character).
Don’t worry about it. It’s a Sicilian message. – Michael Corleone, to Tom Hagen (character). He means that he has heard enough of what you’re saying, and he doesn’t care about it anymore.
I must speak to my father. I have no choice now…and neither does he! – Michael Corleone
I don’t think of myself as a gangster at all…I’m just an amateur trying to get along like all the rest of us. – Michael Corleone.