Godfather And Michael 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've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

Dhani Harrison

#3. Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

Albert Camus

#4. Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#5. [Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia . He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.

Henry A. Kissinger

#6. My mother says it is totally fine
if I blow off steam
as long as I speak in an octave
my kindness can still reach.

Andrea Gibson

#7. 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

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

Jacques Audiard

#9. He call us to obey, not because He needs us but because He knows we need Him.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#10. You do not want to make this guy mad. You see him sitting there all cool and calm, but underneath, he's thinking, he's plotting. I'm telling you, it's not normal. He's like Michael from 'The Godfather.' - Kevin Johnson on David Stern

R.E. Graswich

#11. Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius.

Thelma Schoonmaker

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

Mario Puzo

#13. Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

Ram Dass

#14. The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Paul Cezanne

#15. It's a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.

Michael Jay

#16. Be careful what you believe - it is who you are.

Patti Callahan Henry