教父经典台词
我是个迷信的人,若是他不幸发生意外,或被警察开枪打死,或在牢里上吊,或是他被闪电击中,那我会怪罪这个房间里的每一个人,到那时候我就不会再客气了。
教父对待家人的态度
Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
你经常跟家人呆在一起吗?不错。因为不经常与家人呆在一起的男人，永远也成不了真正的男人!
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless. But not men.
我费了一生的精力，试图不让自己变得十分粗心。女人和小孩子们可以很粗心，但男人不会。
Everything I do with my power, including something criminal, I just want to protect my family and my friends .
我以我的力量所做的一切事情，包括一些罪恶，只是为了保护我的家人和我的朋友。
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 string held by all those big shots. I don't apologize — that's my life — but I thought that, that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string. Senator Corleone; Governor Corleone. Well, it wasn't enough time, Michael. It wasn't enough time.
我从来没有想过要带给你这些。我工作了一辈子，来养家糊口，我没有道过歉，我不愿意当个傻瓜，做那些大人物手中的提线木偶。我毫无歉意，这就是我的命运，不过我也想到过，到时候我儿子成为真正的男人时，你就要做手握绳子的那个人。科利翁尼参议员，科利翁尼州长。好了，时间不多了，迈克尔。时间不多了!
教父的友谊观
Friendship can build a solid defense.
友谊可以筑起一道坚实的防线。
The Don to Bonasera:
“My feelings were wounded but I am not that sort of person who thrusts his friendship on those who do not value it——on those who think me of little account.
“我伤了感情了，但是我这个人并不把自己的友谊强加于那些不重视友谊的人——那些认为我无足轻重的人。”
The Don to Jonny:
“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government; it is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendships you wouldn’t have to ask me to help.”
“友谊就是一切。友谊比天赋还重要。朋友比政府还重要。朋友简直等于自家人，永远不要忘记这一点。如果你用朋友的友谊筑起一道防线，你也就不会相求于你的教父了。”
迈克的顿悟
After five months of exile in Sicily, Michael Corleone came finally to understand his father’s character and his destiny. He came to understand men like Luca Brasi, the ruthless caporegime Clemenza, his mother’s resignation and acceptance of her role. For in Sicily he saw what they would have been if they had chosen not to struggle against their fate. He understood why the Don always said, “A man has only one destiny.”
迈克·柯里昂在西西里过了五个月的流浪生活之后，终于真正懂得了他父亲的性格和他自己的命运。他终于真正懂得了像路加·布瑞西和冷酷的克莱门扎这类人物，也懂得了他母亲那种安分守己的超然态度。在西西里，他看的一清二楚，要是他们不行动起来同自己的命运作斗争，他们将落得什么下场?他懂得了，为什么老头子反反复复地说：“一个人只有一种命运。”(这段话出自原版，很完整地解释了A man has only one destiny的原因。不抗争，便只能像蝼蚁一样的活着，不满也不甘，奋斗的原动力，促使着你向上爬，变得更强更有力，完成你在这个世界上的使命。)
Michael Corleone understood for the first time why men like his father chose to become thieves and murderers rather than members of the legal society. The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit.
迈克·柯里昂破天荒地第一次悟出一个道理，为什么像他父亲那样的人，甘愿当盗窃犯和谋杀犯而不愿意当合法社会的守法公民?贫穷，恐惧，屈辱，这些东西太可怕了，对任何一个有骨气的人来说，都是难以忍受的。
If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.
如果生活告诉了我们什么，历史教育了我们什么，那就是你可以杀了任何人。(还能记得迈克说这句话时自负的神情和语气。迈克是个有仇必报的人，不管是性格还是为了家庭生存的原因，他总是把仇人翦除殆尽。)
Only don’t tell me you’re innocent. It insults my intelligence, makes me very angry.
(迈克只想知道是不是妹夫参与陷害了哥哥。之前所有的承诺，什么一笔勾销，拉斯维加斯旅行，我是你孩子的教父，所有一切是诱饵，是放松警惕的“后路”。可怜以劳尔的智商会信以为真，他不了解迈克是什么样的人。犯下这样不可饶恕的罪过，只有一条后路，那就是死。)
See, all our people are businessmen. Their loyalty is based on that. One thing I learned from Pop was trying to think as people around you think. On that basis, anything is possible.
看，与我们打交道的都是生意人。他们忠诚是建立在利益至上的。我从爸爸那里学到的一点，那就是揣摩周围人的想法，以他们的立场去思考。在生意的基础上，一切皆有可能。