Top 100 Quotes About The Godfather
#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 got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I said, 'Yes, of course, I love that book' - which I had never read.
Albert S. Ruddy
#3. The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi
#4. Friends would ask, 'Have you seen 'The Godfather?' and I'd be like, 'No.'
Gia Coppola
#5. I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug ...
Alexander Shulgin
#6. 'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
Orson Welles
#7. Do I get to be the godfather?" "Fuck that!" Logan objects. "He's picking me. Obvs." "Bullshit. I'm clearly the better choice." "You're clearly the bigger egomaniac, that's what you are.
Elle Kennedy
#8. It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
William H. Macy
#9. 'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29.
Francis Ford Coppola
#10. Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy.
Peter Dinklage
#11. I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.
Francis Ford Coppola
#13. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'
Alexander Payne
#14. I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.
Anita Loos
#15. I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.
Francis Ford Coppola
#16. It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
Francis Ford Coppola
#17. Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original.
William Friedkin
#18. One wrong move and I'm sleeping with the fishes?"
Zeus' brow creased in confusion. "Why would you sleep in water?"
Hades looked at his brother like he was a moron. "It's The Godfather...Forget it.
Tellulah Darling
#19. I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
Oscar De La Renta
#20. I read 'Jaws' and 'The Godfather' back to back one summer when I was 14 and was suddenly aware of how powerful fiction could be.
Mark Billingham
#21. I would never remake something that was like 'The Godfather.' Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever.
Jonah Hill
#22. I saw 'The Godfather' in London when it came out in 1972 and loved it. I've seen it probably 20 times - I always find something new.
Nigel Lythgoe
#23. People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make.
Guillermo Del Toro
#24. When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.
Iggy Pop
#25. The Godfather has, maybe, one good scene.
Serge Ibaka
#26. If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?
Joshua Ferris
#27. Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.
Joe Rogan
#28. I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should now say I care a lot about 3D. I've always loved 3D, I think everything should be 3D, and I think it's just a shame 'The Godfather' wasn't in 3D.
Martin Freeman
#29. In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.
Kevin J. Anderson
#30. Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game,
Tony Yayo
#31. I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.
Lena Dunham
#32. Chris Guest is the godfather of improvisational comedy.
Tom Bennett
#33. Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
Jacques Audiard
#34. I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.
Anurag Kashyap
#35. A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Russell Baker
#36. He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
Brian McKnight
#37. Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.
Noam Chomsky
#38. Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.
Eli Roth
#39. There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.
Danny Aiello
#40. I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad had been working behind a desk somewhere. I remember being on the set of 'The Godfather: Part III,' and all the kids were running around and doing crazy things, and Francis Ford Coppola just embraced that.
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
#41. Deliverance' is The Godfather for crackers.
Josh Bazell
#42. It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can't refuse.
Peter Kreeft
#43. Look at the attention the Godfather's getting! Kick my leg, J.R.; kick me in the leg!
Jerry Lawler
#44. I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.
Nayvadius Cash
#45. 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
#46. I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that Ive ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk.
Sammy Gravano
#47. Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators' ... nowadays it's 'fabricators' ... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.
Alexander Stoddart
#48. If I'm the godfather of [Obamacare], then it gives me the right to kill it.
Mitt Romney
#49. 'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.
Joel Edgerton
#50. Francis, I'd play the Godfather for you," he told the startled director. "I wouldn't do it for those guys at Paramount, but I'd do it for you.
James Kaplan
#51. Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
Gary Ross
#52. I have a little nursery rhyme for all you children out there, something even the Godfather can understand. 'You can prance and you can dance, but when it comes to relations, keep it in your pants.
Kurt Angle
#53. That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, 'The Godfather,' is entirely character driven, propelled by the transformation of a crime lord's youngest son, who breaks bad when he evolves from white-sheep war hero to blood-soaked inheritor of his father's empire.
Steve Erickson
#54. The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
Francis Ford Coppola
#55. I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.
John Cusack
#57. I don't get you people. You watch the Godfather on television and tons of people are getting shot and stabbed to death, blood splattering everywhere and it is entertaining. But, when they killed a horse, people were outraged.
Mario Stinger
#58. When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'
Noel Gallagher
#59. Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.
Ridley Scott
#60. Dog's constipated," said Bert the Shirt.
"Who isn't?" said the Godfather.
Laurence Shames
#61. I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.
Francis Ford Coppola
#62. I like "Training Day" very much. Denzel Washington's performance was spectacular. I also like "The Godfather"and "Kill Bill." I love Tarantino's mind and I believe that "Kill Bill" describes very well his mind and thoughts.
Alfonso Herrera
#63. Her mouth drops open in disbelief. Your dad tried to blackmail the mob? Has he never seen The Godfather?
M. Leighton
#64. What better time to be kind to a beautiful stranger than when she's weak, and rocking a schnoz like the Godfather?
Leslea Tash
#65. I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
Bobby Farrelly
#66. Always the bridesmaid , never the bride."
Always the godfather, never the god".
Gregory Maguire
#67. 'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
Francis Ford Coppola
#68. Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not-Don Corleone
Mario Puzo
#69. What the hell are you? (Desiderius)
I'm her godfather, with a heavy emphasis on the god part. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#70. Wasn't it true that Sometimes the greatest misfortunes brought unforseen rewards? -Don Corleone
Mario Puzo
#71. We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.
Juan Marichal
#72. Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
Laurence Housman
#73. I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'
Robert Duvall
#75. Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
Mario Puzo
#76. Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman.
Mario Puzo
#77. There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.
India.Arie
#78. What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.
Mario Puzo
#79. I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.
Mario Puzo
#80. Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.
Mario Puzo
#82. 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
#83. My godfather sad that story was abut taking the chaotic jigsaw of life, making it into a picture and putting a frame around it so that we could look at it, have control over it. Story and art are the humanizing elements of us.
Emma Thompson
#84. The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.
Allen West
#85. After all, I need to be a godfather slash uncle. I think the term is 'guncle'." "Guncle?" "Abbreviated, 'gay uncle'.
Sean Kennedy
#87. I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's got to be as good as Godfather's or I won't eat it.
Herman Cain
#88. Do not trust and depend on someone as a godfather but accept God the father of all fathers.
Osunsakin Adewale
#89. I can't talk about the education of black children if I ignored two of my nieces who were a couple of grade levels behind. I believe that charity begins at home, and I take seriously the role of a godfather to fill the gap when the parents aren't doing their job.
Roland Martin
#90. Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
Mario Puzo
#91. I got a stone in my shoe, Mr. Corleone,' " I said, quoting from the third Godfather movie.
Joseph Finder
#92. The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world..This is how it has worked for me.
Sourav Ganguly
#93. I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two.
Mickey Rourke
#94. I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything.
Elizabeth Taylor
#95. The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part ... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
Victoria Gotti
#96. Santino, come here. What's the matter with you? I think your brain is going soft with all that comedy you are playing with that young girl. Never tell anyone outside the Family what you're thinking again. Go on.
Mario Puzo
#97. Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.
Al Jourgensen
#98. So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime.
Robert Lacey
#99. In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.
Mario Puzo
#100. My (paradoxically) Christian name was bestowed in compliment to a godfather, sir. I am no Jew. I have already enough to know the curse of having more.
Bernard Capes
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