100 Best The Godfather Part III Quotes

Vincent: Well you tell him from me, that he can live, or he can die.
Michael: Vincent, will you SHUT UP!

Albert: We should wet our beaks a little.

- I know you. You're mosca of montelepre.
- You were an assassin then, and you're an assassin now.
[In Italian] I know Michael corleone is at your house.
- I will pass through the gates with you.

Archbishop: It seems in today's world the power to absolve debt is greater than the power of forgiveness.

Don: You are my 'ace in the hole,' as we say in America. I have a stone in my shoe. You can remove it.
Mosca: Only one stone?
Don: [regarding Michael] It's dangerous. A famous man. You will have to take precautions.
Mosca: Tell me what to do. Then I will tell you my price.

[first lines]
Michael: [voiceover] My dear children: It is now better than several years since I moved to New York, and I haven't seen you as much as I would like to. I hope you will come to the ceremony of papal honors given for my charitable work. The only wealth in this world is children; more than all the money, power on earth, you are my treasure.

- A wise and good man... very influential.
- He will see you.
- I will see this cardinal lamberto and see if we can work things out.
- You honor your agreements, but you are dealing with crooks.
- They have no honor.
- My word is final.

[Whispering] Goodbye, my old friend.
- I swear, on the lives of my children...
- Give me a chance to redeem myself...
- And I will sin no more.

- Don Vincenzo...
- Don corleone...
- Don Vincenzo corleone...

- The meucci association has elected you
- Italian-American man of the year.
- Meucci...
- Who's meucci?
- The italian-american who invented the telephone, one year before bell.
- And this is the reason you've come today?

- My master is dead.
- Blood calls for blood.
- I must have revenge!
- Some day, you may have to do a difficult service for me.
- Command me.
- It never ends.
Calo: I will avenge him!

Don: I've lost the lust for women, and now my mind is clear.

[delivering a message from Michael Corleone to Don Lucchesi]
Calo: Power wears out those who do not have it.
[stabs him]

Joey: I earned that territory with my talent. Commission gave it to me, and you approved.
Michael: Yes.
Vincent: Hey, Uncle Mike, I came here for the party. I'm not here to ask you for any kind of help. I could just kill this bastard. He's the one who needs the help.
Michael: So kill him. What does all this have to do with me?
Vincent: Well, he's going around behind your back saying "Fuck Michael Corleone" all the time. See, that's one thing it has to do with you, right?
Vincent: [to Zasa] Say it to his face one time, say it to his face. ONE TIME!
Joey: Mr. Corleone, all bastards are liars. Shakespeare wrote poems about it.
Vincent: What am I gonna do with this guy, Uncle Mike. WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITH THIS GUY!
Michael: Joey, if there is some guy running around this city saying "Fuck Michael Corleone," what do we do with a piece of shit like that? He's a fuckin' dog.
Joey: Yes, it's true, if anyone would say such a thing they would not be a friend, they would be a dog.
Michael: My interests don't conflict with Mr. Joe Zasa's.
Vincent: Oh you don't know how much your interests conflict with Mr. Joe Zasa's, Uncle Michael.
Connie: He needs your support, Michael!
Vincent: Don't let me work for this guy no more, Uncle Mike. Let me come work for you.
Michael: For me? As what? Tough guy? I don't need tough guys. I need more lawyers. Since we have no conflicts, no debts, I accept your tribute. I wish you well. Vincent, make your peace with Mr. Joe Zasa, come on.
Joey: [Vincent hugs Zasa] Bastardo.
Michael: [Vincent bites Zasa's ear and Zasa is taken out of the office] Oh, Jesus Christ! Close it.
Vincent: Hey Uncle Mike, I told Connie this wasn't the right time for this. I mean, I know you're into bankers and Wall Street but everyone knows you're the final word, you're like the Supreme Court! All I want to do is protect you from these guys and your lawyers can't do that.
Michael: But you can.
Vincent: Yeah, I can do that.
Michael: And why should I be afraid of Joe Zasa?
Vincent: Well, he knows you're stopping him from rising up in the commission, Uncle Mike. I say we make him dead. You give me the order and I'll take care of it.
Michael: You'll take care of it? Maybe you should come with me for a few weeks. See what happens. See if you learn. Then, we'll talk about your future.
Vincent: I won't let you down.
Michael: Alright, go on.

Don: The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

- That's it.
- Joey zasa...
- He can't be doing this alone.
- Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

- For se I/eral years, the bank and its companies ha ve been the object of allegations of disreputable business practices.
- Lucchesi, will you please try to understand?
- I have phoned him.
- I have waited here by the phone.
- You would do well to remember,
- Mr. Lucchesi; that this pope has very different ideas from the last one.

Michael: The higher I go, the crookeder it becomes.

Michael: What's wrong with being a lawyer?
Kay: Nothing, except he doesn't want it. He loves music he wants his life to be in music.
Michael: Well, music is great. I love music but he should finish what he started. Anthony.
Anthony: I'm going my own way.
Michael: Your own way.
Anthony: Uh-huh.
Michael: Professional singer.
Anthony: That's right.
Michael: And what happens if you fail.
Anthony: I won't fail.
Michael: Men always believe that. With a law degree you're taking on insurance. After that you can do anything you want. You can work for me.
Anthony: I will never work for you. I have bad memories.
Michael: All families have bad memories.
Anthony: I will always be your son, but I will never have anything to do with your business.
Michael: Anthony, finish the law degree.
Anthony: No.
Kay: That he got from you. That "no."
Michael: You could have helped me, Kay. You could have helped me to convince him.
Kay: Convince him of what?
Michael: He throws his life away. He throws greatness away!
Kay: This is greatness? You know, Michael, now that you're so respectable I think you're more dangerous than you ever were. In fact, I preferred you when you were just a common Mafia hood.
Michael: Alright, can we talk now? Common sense?
Kay: Alright. Tony knows you killed Fredo.
Michael: Why did you come here?
Kay: I came here to protect my son. I didn't come here to see you disguised by your church. I thought that was a shameful ceremony.

- And how I lost them.
- I guess that if it's any consolation,
- I want you to know that...
- .Uthatu.
- I always loved you, Michael.
- And you know...
- Always, I always will.

- Your eminence, I'm...
- It's been so long. I wouldn't...
- I wouldn't know where to...
- It's been 30 years.
- I'd use up too much of your time,
- I think.
- I always have time to save souls.
- Well, I'm beyond redemption.
- No, no...

Michael: [Referring to Vincent and Mary's romance] But he's your first cousin.
Mary: Then I love him first.

- but Christ has not penetrated.
- Christ doesn't live within them.
- What's happening?
- Could you get me something sweet?
- Some orange juice, candy...
- I have trouble with diabetes.
[Gasping] My blood sugar goes low.
- I understand.

- Daddy, I'm so nervous.
- The honorary chairman of the vito corleone foundation, my daughter, Mary corleone.

- Come on outside.
- Take a rest and don't think about it.
- All I do is think about it.
- I'm your son.
- Command me in all things.
- Give up my daughter.
- That's the price you pay...
- For the life you choose.

- The name corleone will be associated with a voice.
- Dad...
- You don't have to do this to me.
- -do what? What do you mean?
- Dad...
- No! Mary!
- God, no!

- I love you, cous.
- I love you, too, cous.
- Let us cook.
- Hold me.

[In Italian] Your holiness?
- Eminence.
- -[Cup shattering]
- The holy father is dead!

Joey: Bastardo.

Michael: The only wealth in this world is children.
- More than all the money andpo wer on earth, you are my treasure.
- Although I entrusted your education to your mother for your own best interest,
- I look forward to seeing you, and to a new period of Harmony in our lives.
- Perhaps you might pre vail upon your mother to come to this celebration.

- A law degree is like taking out insurance.
- After that you can work for me...
- I will never work for you.
- I have bad memories.
- Every family has bad memories.
- I'll always be your son, but won't have anything to do with your business.
- Anthony... finish the law degree.

- Can I stay here and hide out with you?
- Can you help me cook for the boys?
- You know that I don't know how to cook, but I'll help.
- Okay...
- What do I do?

- If he hints that he wants you to betray me, get insulted, because that's his trap.
- You're not telling me the whole truth, Vincenzo.
- Isn't it true, that with Michael gone, the girl controls everything?
- Leave the girl out of this.
- Of course, you love her.
- And she loves you.

- You were all that I...
- Loved and valued most in the world.
- Now I'm losing you. I lost you.
- You're gone.
- And it was all for nothing. So...
- You have to understand,
- I had a whole different destiny planned.
- All right, I'll stop.

- This is a fantasy. We italian-americans laid the bricks that built this city.
- We have meucci, who invented the telephone.
- We have Don ameche, who played the guy who invented it.
- Buy yourself a raffle ticket, maybe you'll win a Cadillac.
- The salsiccia is wonderful!
- Here, have a sandwich.

- Here it is.
- The house where my father was born.
- This is where they came to take him when he was a boy. To kill him.
- Wait...
- Listen to that.

- Hello, Kay.
- Congratulations, Michael.
- That's quite an honor.
- But a little expensive, wouldn't you say?
- Cake?
- No, thank you.

Vincent: You like to gamble? Why don't we go to Atlantic City? My town. I'll show you how to gamble.
Grace: Yeah, but I like to win. How will I know what numbers to pick?
Vincent: Do I look okay like a guy who's gonna lose?

- You've got a cat?
- Go get us some water, I'm thirsty.
- Come on.
- Come on.
- Well, I guess I know my place.
- I can't believe I'm actually doing this.
- "Get me water, bake me a cake"...
- What happened to "please"?

- Sleep.
- Sleep, godfather.
- Our friend's dead.

- Write it in. Mancini. M-a-n-c-i-n-i.
- Problem?
- My name isn't on the list.
- Then you have to leave immediately.
- You want to dance with me?
- Joe, it's Vinnie. These are our guests.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry, sir.
- Welcome to the party.

- Do you mind driving?
- -what's wrong?
- My eyes.
- Sometimes they're all right, but...
- I have to see Don tommasino...
- Well...
- There are no bodyguards today.
- I really snuck away.
[In Italian] Father, where are you going?
- Would you like a ride?

- I hear the confessions of my own priests here.
- Sometimes the desire to confess is overwhelming, and we must seize the moment.
- What is the point of confessing if I don't repent?
- I hear you are a practical man.
- What have you got to lose?

Michael: Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

- It was the right decision, uncle Mike.
- It was the wrong decision.
- I command this family!
- Right or wrong...
- It was not what I wanted!

- Michael, please... let's agree.
- Parisi: Michael, the news is everywhere.
- Everyone says that you control lmmobiliare.
Man: Lmmobiliare is already laundering money in Peru and Nassau.
- We've worked with you for 40 years.
- We should wet our beaks a little.
- We want to do business with you.
- -that's right, we've been together...

- Relax, have a smoke. You smoke?
- Whose idea was this? Who sent you?
- Tell me who sent you.
[Coughing] No one.
- Did you take a look at this guy?
- Yeah.
- Who sent you?
- It was Joey zasa.

Michael: When they come... they come at what you love.

- Nephew...
- From this moment on...
- Call yourself Vincent corleone.
- Sit.

Mary: I'll always love you.
Vincent: Love somebody else.

[Quietly] Do you understand?
- Yes.
- Come on, Michael.

- The pope has ratified the lmmobiliare deal. We've won.
- Congratulations.
- Strange how things work.
- The pope is doing what you said he'd do. He's cleaning house.
- He should be careful.
- It's dangerous to be an honest man.
[Whispering] I want to put more muscle backstage with Tony.

- I remember a shooting when I was little.
- And one time al neri and other bodyguards took me and Tony away.
- Is it all happening again?
- Not like that, sweetie.
- Then why are you hiding here?
- Is something going to happen to you?
- Nothing's going to happen to me, cugina. We'll take care of you.

- Mary, you can't see him.
- Just don't see him anymore.
- He's right. It's too dangerous.
- Mary, you can't see him anymore.
- -Not in that fashion.
- No.
- Please, promise me.

- Godfather, this is the cake for you and your family from Enzo the baker.
- Do you want to do it?

Michael: Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in.

- Quiet, Vincent.
- He needs your support!
- Don't let me work for this guy, let me work for you.
- As what? Tough guy? I don't need tough guys. I need more lawyers.
- Since we have no conflicts or debts,
- I accept your tribute. I wish you well.
- Vincent, make your peace with Mr. Joe zasa. Go on.

Michael: Italian politics have had these men for centuries. They are the true Mafia.

- It's not your father's decision, it's mine.
- Don't hate your father.
- There are things I'll be part of that you can't be around.
- After tonight, you won't see me anymore.
- You've got to understand, Mary.
- You've got to understand.
- I'll always love you.

- It's been a long time, hasn't it?
- Yeah.
- Eight years.
- Yeah.
- You look wonderful.
- Your son has something he wants to talk to you about. I came here for him.

Cardinal: Your sins are terrible. It is just that you suffer. Your life could be redeemed, but I know you don't believe that. You will not change.
[grants Michael the Rite of Absolution]

- That pope Paul w has canceled his
- Sunday blessing...
- Due to ill health.
- His physician has ordered total bedrest ..
- And cessation of all activities.
- They've had a press conference.
- The pope's condition is grave. "Gral/I'ssimo."

- Hey, dad. Smile!
- I see you still have al neri. Why?
- I need him. He helps me get in and out of the car.
- -He carries my briefcase.
- You're still a liar, Michael.
- Let me show you sicily, the real sicily.
- So you'll understand the family history.
- I think I understand it well enough.

- So, it's all lies?
- Just stories, sweetheart. Okay?
- Okay.
- I'm glad you're around.
- I'm glad you're here too.
- Cugina...
- Cous...

Don: I must accept my age, and grow my olives and tomatoes.

- Run, Joey! You piece of shit!
Joey: Open the door!
- How are you, Joe?
- Zasa!

Joey: [during a meeting in Atlantic City] I say to all of you, I have been treated this day, with no respect. I've earned you all money. I've made you rich, and I asked for little. Good. You will not give, I'll take! As for Don, Corleone, well he makes it, very clear to me today, that he is my enemy. You must choose between us.

Michael: I feel... I'm getting wiser now.
Kay: The sicker you get, the wiser you get, huh?
Michael: When I'm dead, I'm gonna be really smart.

- Mr. Lucchesi's house?
[In Italian] Yes.
- I bring a message from Michael corleone.
- Let him in.

Vincent: You had a gun. They only had a knife. You could have talked them into surrendering. Turned them over to the police.
Vincent: Hey, Uncle Mike, Zasa sent these guys I was just sending him a message that's all.
Michael: Now he has to send you a message back.
Vincent: Joey Zasa's gonna send me a message? Joey Zasa's gonna send me a message?
Connie: Michael, he did the right thing. He got Zasa's name.
Michael: 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?
Vincent: Yeah.
Michael: I've got problems with the commission, young man!
Vincent: Yeah, I know.
Michael: You don't make them any easier.
Vincent: I know.
Michael: Alright, go on. Get out of here.
Connie: Michael.
Michael: Yes.
Connie: Now they'll fear you.
Michael: Maybe they should fear you.

- Joey, up your ass!
- Get off the car!
- Do you have a raffle ticket?
- Joey, take a look at my raffle ticket!
- Here's what I think of you...
- And your raffle ticket.
- Get the fuck off this car.
- I'll break your fucking balls.
- Get out of here!

- Tootsie rolls!
- The nuns who made this cannoli took a vow of silence. They're the very finest.
- Hey. -hey, cous.
- Hi. Where's your leather?
[Whispering] Stop it.
- You're so thin. You eat it.

- time passes, but day never comes there is never sun, if she doesn't return burns my earth and burns my heart she is thirsty for water, and I am thirsty for love to whom can I sing my song if no one appears at the balcony.

- The vito corleone foundation helps the poor in every country, gives grants to artists, funds medical research, and is particularly dedicated to the resurrection of sicily.
- Archbishop gilday, here is 100 million dollars for the poor of sicily, in the name of vito corleone.
- Don't spend it all in one place.

Anthony: [wanting to go on his own being an opera singer instead of a lawyer] I will always be your son, but I will never have anything to do with your business.

Vincent: They won't try anything.
- Bodyguard: Everything's fine.
- It's all clear.
- I've already sent al neri to the Vatican.

[In Italian] I am honored, Don altobello, that you've come from palermo to visit me.
- Hey, the little kid! He's grown.
- Do the donkey for me.

B.J. Harrison: [about the pope; before the opera] The Pope's doing exactly what you said he'd do, he's cleaning house.
Michael: He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.

Michael: [to Mary] I would burn in hell to keep you safe.

Vincent: [in the helicopter] I'd like to take Joey Zasa up in one of these and drop him.
Michael: Joey Zasa is nothing. He's a small-time enforcer. He bluffs, threats, but nothing. You can see him coming a mile away.
Vincent: We should kill him before he kills...
Michael: No! Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

- Oh, god! Dad!
- Excuse me.
- I'll call Kay.

B.J. Harrison: It's serious.
- Our man inside the Vatican says there's a plot against the pope.
- He'll have a heart attack?
- This pope has powerful enemies.
- We may not be in time to save him.
- Let's go back.

Dominic: [briefing the reporters] The Pope - the Holy Father himself - has this very day blessed Michael Corleone; and you think you know better than the Pope?

Joey: The Miucci association and elected you their Italian American man of the year.
[hands Michael a plaque]
Michael: Oh, Miucci. Who's Miucci?
Joey: He's the Italian American who invented the telephone. He did it one year before Alexander Graham Bell.
Michael: Oh. And this is the reason you have come to my home on this day.
Joey: I have a stone in my shoe, Mr. Corleone. A two-bit punk who works for me. Who thinks he's related to you. A bastard.
Al: He's here. Vincent Mancini. He's at the party.
Michael: Well, bring him in.
Joey: I think it's good that we talk. I have a problem. Now I have to find out if it is my problem or your problem.
Michael: Joey, your business is your business. I have no interest, no percentages. I'm out.
Joey: Good, then it is my problem.
Connie: [Connie and Vincent enter] Michael, you know Vincent Mancini. Sonny's boy.
Vincent: Hey, how you doin' Mr. Corleone.
Michael: How you doing.
Vincent: I'm doin' good. How you doin'?
Michael: Good.
Vincent: Nice party.
Michael: Oh, you like it?
Vincent: Yeah, I had to sneak in.
Michael: Well, you dressed for it. What's the trouble between you and Mr. Joe Zasa?
Vincent: Just trouble. I'll take care of it.
Michael: That's foolish of you.
Vincent: Foolish of me? It's a little foolish of this guy don't you think? Right? RIGHT!
Michael: Temper like his father. Vincent, Mr. Joe Zasa now owns what used to be the Corleone family business in New York. Out of the kindness of his heart he gave you a job with his family. Contrary to my advice you took the job. I offered you something better. Something in the legitimate world. You turned me down. Now you both come to me with this bad blood. What do you expect me to do? Am I a gangster?
Vincent: No, no, you're not a gangster, Uncle Mike.
Connie: Michael, that's Papa's old neighborhood now it's a sewer. Zasa runs it like a disgrace the ladies told me.

- Anthony, I have something you made for me a very long time ago.
- Might bring you luck.
- Thanks.
- You saved it... I remember.
- Thank you, dad.
- I'm proud of you.
- Thank you.

Michael: Nephew, from this moment on, call yourself Vincent Corleone.

- Go in the other car.
- I'll ride with Michael.
- Go, go, go.

- Nice to see you, Mr. Zasa.
- Have a nice time.
- Don't forget to buy your raffle tickets.
- What are you doing?
- -he didn't mean it.
- Tell him you're sorry.
- Okay, let's go.

- Keinszig...
- That little Swiss banker fuck.
- He's been sw1ndling everyone from the beginning fuck him.
- Don lucchesi; My friend calo will pay him a visit at his home.
- Neri; Take a train to home.
- Light a candle for the archbishop.

- Cent'annil cent'annil all: Cent'annil

- Hold it!
Michael: Vincent...
- Yeah.
- Take the picture with us.
- Nice jacket.
- Photographer: Closer to the center, sir.
- Smile!

- Don't ever again give that kind of order.
- Not while I'm alive.
- Understand?
- You were too sick to make a decision.
- I got a go~ahead from neri and Connie.
- Connie?

Mary: SPOILER:
[last lines]
Mary: [realizing she has been shot] Dad?

Don: [regarding Vincent] This is the hero who put Joey Zasa in his grave. If we'd known of his existence, we would never have backed Joey.
Don: No one wants another Joe.

Lucchesi: [In Italian]
- Speak... tell me.
- You have lost the faith of the people.
- He who builds on the people builds on mud.
- And Michael corleone's message?

- The publicity is phenomenal. You're the new rockefeller. A philanthropist.
- Sign here, please.
- Times do change, don't they?
- My father hated foundations.
- He loved doing it by himself.
- Man to man. But we're different.
- No different than any large corporation.
- We control a lot of money with little.
- Minimize taxes.
- With no government control.

Michael: I spent my life protecting my son. I spent my life protecting my family!
Kay: Let's be reasonable here, Michael. I mean, that's your big thing, isn't it? Reason backed up by murder.
Michael: Oh, God, you hate me. You hate me.
Kay: No, I don't hate you, Michael. I dread you.
Michael: I did what I could, Kay, to protect all of you from the horrors of this world.
Kay: But you became my horror. The children still love you, though. Especially Mary.
Michael: Well, that's something. We can build on that. For their sake. Let's try.
Kay: Only if you let Tony go to live his own life. Away from you.
Michael: I'll let Tony go.
Kay: Thank you.

- And had been in poor health for the last se I/eral months.
- Connie...
- All my life I've kept trying to go up in society.
- To where everything higher up was legal, straight...
- But the higher I go, the more crooked it becomes.
- Where the hell does it end?

[during a meeting in the Vatican]
Archbishop: The Pope is gravely ill. Until he recovers, I am powerless.
B.J. Harrison: What if he dies?
Frederick: Then, as you Americans say, all bets are off.

- -It's a hit! Let's go!
Man: Let's get out of here! Move!
- My coat! It's my lucky coat!
- It's my lucky coat!
- Stay behind me!
- Mikey, this way!
- Come on. We're out of here.