Två dagar kvar och hög tid att öva in några användbara citat, jag räknar med att behöva säga minst fem av nedanstående meningar i helgen:
"I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of your daughter's wedding. And I hope their first child be a masculine child. I pledge my ever-ending loyalty."
"Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hands, alright?"
"Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract. That's a true story."
"Where does it say that you can't kill a cop? I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a - a - a dishonest cop - a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. That's a terrific story. And we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we? And they might like a story like that. It's not personal, it's strictly business."
"Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes."
"Only don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry."
"If Don Corleone had all the judges, and the politicians in New York, then he must share them, or let us others use them. He must let us draw the water from the well. Certainly he can present a bill for such services; after all... we are not Communists."
"You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you? Or my boy to me?"
"Some people will pay a lot of money for that information; but then your daughter would lose a father, instead of gaining a husband."
"I don't like violence. I'm a businessman; blood is a big expense."
"You touch my sister again, I'll kill you."
"He's still alive. They hit him with five shots and he's still alive!"
"Just let your hand drop to your side and the gun slip out. Everyone will still think you've got it. They're gonna be staring at your face. So walk out of the place real fast, but you don't run. Don't look nobody directly in the eye, hut don't look away either. They're gonna be scared of you, believe me, so don't worry about nothing."
"I want you to use all your powers, and all your skills. I don't want his mother to see him this way. Look how they massacred my boy..."
"Can you get me off the hook? For old times' sake?"
"The Senator called, he apologized for not coming but said that you would understand; also some of the judges. They've all sent gifts."
"But let's be frank here. You never wanted my friendship. And you feared to be in my debt."
"I like to drink wine more than I used to... Anyway, I'm drinking more."
"I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life, I don't apologize, to take care of my family. And I refused to be a fool dancing on the strings held by all of those big shots. That's my life, I don't apologize for that. But I always thought that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator Corleone, Governor Corleone, something."
"Listen, whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting, he's the traitor. Don't forget that."
