The Best Michael Quotes

Michael: I don't want anything to happen to him while my mother's alive.

[Kay is threatening to take the children away]
Michael: Don't you know that I would use all of my power to prevent something like that from happening?

Michael: I've always taken care of you, Fredo.
Fredo: Taken care of me? You're my kid brother and you take care of me? Did you ever think about that? Hah? Did you ever once that about that?

Michael: He was stupid. I was lucky. I will visit him soon.

Senator: I despise your masquerade, the dishonest way you pose yourself. You and your whole fucking family.
Michael: We're both part of the same hypocrisy, senator, but never think it applies to my family.

Michael: I've always taken care of you Fredo.
Fredo: Taken care of me? You're my kid brother and you take care of me? Did you ever think about that, huh? Did you ever ONCE think about that? "Send Fredo off to do this; Send Fredo off to do that." "Let Fredo take care of some Mickey Mouse nightclub somewhere." "Send Fredo to pick somebody up at the airport." I'm your older brother Mike and I was stepped over.

Kay: It made me think of what you once told me: "In five years the Corleone family will be completely legitimate." That was seven years ago.
Michael: I know. I'm trying, darling.

Michael: My father taught me many things here - he taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Kay: Oh, Michael. Michael, you are blind. It wasn't a miscarriage. It was an abortion. An abortion, Michael. Just like our marriage is an abortion. Something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son, Michael! I wouldn't bring another one of you sons into this world! It was an abortion, Michael! It was a son Michael! A son! And I had it killed because this must all end!
[Michael's eyes begin to bulge]
Kay: I know now that it's over. I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael... no way you could ever forgive me not with this Sicilian thing that's been going on for 2,000 years.
[Michael loses control. He slaps Kay across the face. She falls onto the couch]
Michael: Bitch! You won't take my children!
Kay: I will.
Michael: You WON'T TAKE MY CHILDREN!
Kay: They're my children too.

Michael: Keep 'em alive.
Rocco: We'll try.
Michael: ROCCO! ALIVE!

Michael: Was it a boy?
Tom: Mikey, after three and a half months...
Michael: WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER ANY MORE? WAS IT A BOY?

Michael: I trust these men with my life, Senator. To ask them to leave would be an insult.

Michael: Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to 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?

[Geary is demanding a large bribe for a gaming license]
Senator: I want your answer and the money by noon tomorrow. And one more thing. Don't you contact me again, ever. From now on, you deal with Turnbull.
Michael: Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.

Michael: He's has been dying from the same heart attack for the last twenty years.

Michael: C'mon Frankie... my father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth.
Frank: Your father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth... but he never *trusted* Hyman Roth!

Michael: Anthony, I'm going to be leaving very early tomorrow.
Anthony: Will you take me?
Michael: No, I can't.
Anthony: Why do you have to go?
Michael: Because I have to do business.
Anthony: I could help you.
Michael: Someday you will.

Tom: It would be like trying to kill the President; there's no way we can get to him.
Michael: Tom, you know you surprise me. If anything in this life is certain - if history has taught us anything - it's that you can kill *anybody*.

Fredo: I'm your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over!
Michael: That's the way Pop wanted it.
Fredo: It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!

[Ordering drinks in a Havana cafe]
Fredo: Uno... por favor...
[to Michael]
Fredo: How do you say "banana daiquiri"?
Michael: "Banana daiquiri."

Michael: I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!

Michael: I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.

Michael: [discussing the incident regarding the two unknown gunmen who fired through Michael's bedroom window earlier] You heard what happened in my home?
Frank: Mike, I almost died myself. We was all so relieved...
Michael: [interrupts] In my HOME! IN MY BEDROOM WHERE MY WIFE SLEEPS! Where my children come and play with their toys. In my home.

[about the unrest in Cuba]
Michael: I saw a strange thing today. Some rebels were being arrested. One of them pulled the pin on a grenade. He took himself and the captain of the command with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't.
Hyman Roth: What does that tell you?
Michael: They could win.

Al: Our friend and associate Hyman Roth is in the news. The High Court of Israel turned down his request to live there as a returning Jew. He landed in Buenos Aires last night offering a "gift" of a million dollars if they'd let him stay. They said no. His passport's been invalidated, except for his return trip to the States.
Tom: He'll try Panama next.
Michael: Panama won't take him. Not for a million, not for ten million.

Michael: If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.