6 Best The Godfather Monologues

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The Godfather (Bonasera)

The Godfather (Bonasera)

Category: Movie Role: Bonasera From: The Godfather

I believe in America. America has made my fortune. And I raised my daughter in the American fashion. I gave her freedom but I taught her never to dishonor her family. She found a “boy friend,” not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out late. I didn’t protest. Two months ago he took her for a drive, with another boy friend. They made her drink whiskey and then they tried to take advantage of her. She resisted. She kept her honor. So they beat her. Like an animal. When I went to the hospital her nose was broken. Her jaw was shattered, held together by wire. She couldn’t even weep because of the pain. But I wept. Why did I weep? She was the light of my life. A beautiful girl. Now she will never be beautiful again. Sorry… I went to the police, like a good American. These two boys were brought to trial. The judge sentenced them to three years in prison, and suspended the sentence. Suspended sentence! They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom like a fool, and those two bastards, they smiled at me. Then I said to my wife, “For justice, we must go to Don Corleone.”

The Godfather (Jack Woltz)

The Godfather (Jack Woltz)

Category: Movie Role: Jack Woltz From: The Godfather

You don’t understand. Johnny Fontane never gets that movie. That part is perfect for him. It’ll make him a big star. I’m gonna run him out of the business. And let me tell you why. Johnny Fontane ruined one of Woltz International’s most valuable protégés. For five years we had her under training, singing lessons, acting lessons, dancing lessons. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her. I was gonna make her a big star. And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I’m not a hard-hearted man, that it’s not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful, she was young, she was innocent, she was the greatest piece of ass I’ve ever had, and I’ve had ‘em all over the world. And then Johnny Fontane comes along with his olive oil voice and guinea charm and she runs off. She threw it all away just to make me look ridiculous. And a man in my position can’t afford to be made to look ridiculous.Now you get the hell out of here! And if that goombah tries any rough stuff, you tell him, I ain’t no band leader. Yea, I heard that story.

The Godfather (Santino Corleone)

The Godfather (Santino Corleone)

Category: Movie Role: Santino Corleone From: The Godfather

What are you gonna do? Nice college boy, huh? Didn’t want to get mixed up in the family business. Now you want to gun down a police captain. Why? Because he slapped you in the face a little bit? What do you think this is the Army where you can shoot ’em from a mile away? You gotta get up close like this and, badda-bing, you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit. C’mere. … You’re taking this very personal. Tom, this is business and this man is taking it very, very personal. … 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?

The Godfather (Vito Corleone)

The Godfather (Vito Corleone)

Category: Movie Role: Vito Corleone From: The Godfather

You can act like a man! … What’s the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finocchio that cries like a woman? “What can I do? What can I do?” What is that nonsense? Ridiculous. You spend time with your family? … Good. ‘Cause a man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man. Come here … you look terrible. I want you to eat. I want you to rest a while. And in a month from now, this Hollywood bigshot’s gonna give you what you want.

The Godfather (Vito Corleone)

The Godfather (Vito Corleone)

Category: Movie Role: Vito Corleone From: The Godfather

You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you or my boy to me? I forgo the vengeance of my son. But my youngest son had to leave this country because of this Sollozzo business. So now I have to make arrangements to bring him back safely cleared of all these false charges. But I’m a superstitious man. And if some unlucky accident should befall him, if he should be shot in the head by a police officer, or if should hang himself in his jail cell, or if he’s struck by a bolt of lightning… then I’m going to blame some of the people in this room… and that, I do not forgive. But, that aside, let say that I swear, on the souls of my grandchildren, that I will not be the one to break the peace we have made here today.