Corleone Quotes

#1. I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.

Eric Stoltz

#2. I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.

Jane Green

#3. Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not-Don Corleone

Mario Puzo

#4. Wasn't it true that Sometimes the greatest misfortunes brought unforseen rewards? -Don Corleone

Mario Puzo

#5. utilitarian office

Douglas Corleone

#6. Here's a lesson for you, Sonny: Don't write if you can talk, don' talk if you can nod your head, don't nod if you don't have to

Ed Falco

#7. All Lightwoods look the same to me -

Cassandra Clare

#8. And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

Mario Puzo

#9. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone

Mario Puzo

#10. I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.

Studs Terkel

#11. I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

Natalie Portman

#12. Everyday you gotta wake up & be yourself, even if you suck, especially if you suck, because no one else sucks like you suck - Patrick Stump

Patrick Stump

#13. Every man has but one destiny Veto Corleone

Mario Puzo

#14. Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

Mario Puzo

#15. move up to another level in your career and personal life, then

John C. Maxwell

#16. I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

Billy Porter

#17. I often don't answer, but I like receiving them," said one woman, who seemed oblivious to how ridiculous this statement sounded.

Aziz Ansari

#18. Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close ... that, supposedly, I won't suspect.
Hagen: Somebody like me.
Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you.
Hagen: I'm German-American.
Michael: To them that's Irish.

Mario Puzo

#19. Someone even called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget.

Jeb Bush

#20. My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse." Kay, "What was that?" "Luca Brasi held a gun to his head and my father assured him that either his brains, or his signature, would be on the contract." - Michael Corleone The

Richard "RJ" Bond

#21. I got a stone in my shoe, Mr. Corleone,' " I said, quoting from the third Godfather movie.

Joseph Finder

#22. Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

Jacques Audiard

#23. ..for Justice, we must go to Don Corleone.

Mario Puzo

#24. The gunman said, Fabrizzio,Michael Corleone sends you his regards.

Mario Puzo

#25. He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful."
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Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.

Mario Puzo

#26. Michael Corleone understood for the first time why men like his father chose to become thieves and murderers rather than members of the legal society. The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit.

Mario Puzo

#27. I'm against TPP and I'm going to oppose it.

Jeff Sessions

#28. Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
-Don Vito Corleone

Mario Puzo

#29. If anything in this life is certain ... if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

Mario Puzo

#30. Chasing Around Woman is not considered manly among Italins, It's a sign of weak character

Ed Falco

#31. For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone.

Mario Puzo

#32. I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.

Jason Blum

#33. There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Eric Hoffer

#34. Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters.

Mario Puzo

#35. Tell my father I wish to be his son. -Michael Corleone

Mario Puzo

#36. No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.

Mario Puzo

#37. The victory of the Corleone Family was complete. During that same twenty-four-hour period Clemenza and Lampone turned loose their regimes and punished the infiltrators of the Corleone domains.

Mario Puzo

#38. Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.

Peter Hoeg

#39. Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

Mario Puzo