"Michael, I hated you for so many years. I think that I did things to myself, to hurt myself so that you'd know - that I could hurt you. You were just being strong for us the way Poppa was, and I forgive you. Can't you forgive Fredo? He's so sweet and helpless without you. You need me, Michael. I wanna take care of you now."

"[to Michael] There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good. We made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada, made a fortune. Your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts, and there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry. I knew Moe. I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go and I said to myself: this is the business we've chosen. I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!"

"I'm going to take a nap. When I wake up, if the money is on the table, I'll know I have a partner. If it isn't, I'll know I don't."

"I'd give four million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting."

"If I could only live to see it, to be there with you. What I wouldn't give for 20 more years! Here we are, protected, free to make our profits without Kefauver, the goddamn Justice Department and the F.B.I. 90 miles away, in partnership with a friendly government. Ninety miles! It's nothing! Just one small step, looking for a man who wants to be President of the United States, and having the cash to make it possible. Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel."

"[traps Vito in his car, in Sicilian] Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods, but you don't even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I've got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little. I hear you and your friends cleared $600 each. Give me $200 each, for your own protection, and I'll forget the insult. You young punks have to learn to respect a man like me! Otherwise the cops will come to your house and your family will be ruined. Of course, if I’m wrong about how much you stole I’ll take less. And by less, I only mean a hundred bucks less. Now don’t refuse me. Understand, paisan? [After Vito hesitates] Capisci, paisano? (Understand, friend?)"

"Danny Aiello - Tony Rosato"

"Carmine Caridi - Carmine Rosato"

"Mario Cotone - Don Tommasino"

"Giuseppe Sillato - Don Francesco Ciccio"

"Abe Vigoda - Sal Tessio"

"James Caan - Santino 'Sonny' Corleone"

"Troy Donahue - Merle Johnson"

"Dominic Chianese - Johnny Ola"

"Frank Sivero - Genco Abbandando"

"Bruno Kirby - Young Clemenza"

"Tom Rosqui - Rocco Lampone"

"Gastone Moschin - Don Fanucci"

"Richard Bright - Al Neri"

"G.D. Spradlin - Sen. Pat Geary"

"Michael V. Gazzo - Frankie Pentangeli"

"Lee Strasberg - Hyman Roth"

"Talia Shire - Connie Corleone"

"John Cazale - Fredo Corleone"

"Robert De Niro - Vito Corleone"

"Diane Keaton - Kay Adams-Corleone"

"Robert Duvall - Tom Hagen"

"Debebe Eshetu - Wassa"

"Neda Arneric - Jazar"

"Vonetta McGee - Aleme"

"Frank Finlay - Amafi"

"Richard Roundtree - John Shaft"

"Shaft is stickin' it...all the way."

"Once this baby starts kicking, it ain't gonna stop. So nobody get cute! [While carrying an automatic, high-powered shotgun to hold the villains at bay]"

"THE Brother Man in the Motherland."

"[walks up to the counter of Gold's Gym] Can I sign up? I want to start gaining some muscles."

"You know, Louis, you look like something Michelangelo carved out."

"Never feel sorry for yourself. Remember, if you are training hard, he may be training twice as hard. You just gotta keep coming back stronger."

"You're the king, Arnold, and you're going to stay the king a long time."

"Come on let's get Serious!"

"I was always dreaming about very powerful people - dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even, like Jesus, be for thousands of years remembered."

"It's as satisfying to me as, uh, cumming is, you know? As, ah, having sex with a woman and cumming. And so can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like, uh, getting the feeling of cumming in a gym, I'm getting the feeling of cumming at home, I'm getting the feeling of cumming backstage when I pump up, when I pose in front of 5,000 people, I get the same feeling, so I am cumming day and night. I mean, it's terrific. Right? So you know, I am in heaven."

"The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump. Let's say you train your biceps. Blood is rushing into your muscles and that's what we call The Pump. You muscles get a really tight feeling, like your skin is going to explode any minute, and it's really tight - it's like somebody blowing air into it, into your muscle. It just blows up, and it feels really different. It feels fantastic."

"Milk is for babies; when you grow up, you have to drink beer."

"I don't have any weak points. I had weak points three years ago, but my main thing in mind is, my goal always was, to even out everything to the point... that everything is perfect. Which means if I want to increase one muscle a half inch, the rest of the body has to increase. I would never make one muscle increase or decrease, because everything fits together now, and all I have to do is get my posing routine down more perfect, which is almost impossible to do, you know. It's perfect already."

"Franco is pretty smart, but Franco's a child, and when it comes to the day of the contest, I am his father. He comes to me for advices. So it's not that hard for me to give him the wrong advices."

"I've thrown up many times working out, but it's all worth it."

"I always felt my place was in America, and when I was ten years old I only dreamed of coming to America and being the greatest and being different from anybody else."

"was it love at first sight?"

"Eddie Deezen - Eugene Felnic"