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Citizen Kane (1941) Movie Quotes: By Charles Foster Kane
You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars NEXT year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years. ~ Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941). You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man. ~ Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941). I always gagged on the silver spoon. ~ Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941). You can't blame me. They've been making statues for some two thousand years, and I've only been collecting for five. ~ Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941). Don't believe everything you hear on the radio. ~ Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941). I don't think there's one word that can describe a mans life. ~ Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941). Dear Wheeler: you provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war. ~ Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941). I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher; I just try everything I can think of. ~ Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941). Don't worry about me! I'm Charles Foster Kane! I'm no cheap, crooked politician, trying to save himself from the consequences of his crimes! ~ Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941). You can't buy a bag of peanuts in this town without someone writing a song about you. ~ Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941). There's only one person in the world who's going to decide what I'm going to do and that's me... ~ Orson Welles (Charles Foster Kane), Citizen Kane (1941). The trouble is, you don't realize you're talking to two people. As Charles Foster Kane, who has 82,634 shares of Public Transit Preferred. You see, I do have a general idea of my holdings. I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of town. A committee should be formed to boycott him. You may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of $1,000 dollars. On the other hand, I am the publisher of the Inquirer! As such, it's my duty - and I'll let you in on a little secret, it's also my pleasure - to see to it that decent, hard-working people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates just because - they haven't anybody to look after their interests. ~ Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941). Citizen Kane (1941) Movie Quotes: By Jedediah Leland Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm? ~ Jedediah Leland, Citizen Kane (1941). I can remember everything. That's my curse, young man. It's the greatest curse that's ever been inflicted on the human race: memory. ~ Jedediah Leland, Citizen Kane (1941). You don't care about anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you love 'em so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want love on your own terms. Something to be played your way, according to your rules. ~ Jedediah Leland, Citizen Kane (1941). He married for love. Love. That's why he did everything. That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough, he wanted all the voters to love him too. Guess all he really wanted out of life was love. That's Charlie's story, how he lost it. You see, he just didn't have any to give. Well, he loved Charlie Kane of course, very dearly, and his mother, I guess he always loved her. ~ Jedediah Leland, Citizen Kane (1941). Citizen Kane (1941) Movie Quotes: By Boss Jim Gettys I am not a gentleman. I don't even know what a gentleman is. ~ Jim Gettys, Citizen Kane (1941). You're the greatest fool I've ever known, Kane. If it was anybody else, I'd say what's going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. ~ Jim Gettys, Citizen Kane (1941). Only you're going to need more than one lesson. And you're going to get more than one lesson. ~ Jim Gettys, Citizen Kane (1941). Citizen Kane (1941) Movie Quotes: By Mr. Bernstein Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of. ~ Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane (1941). You're getting paid, Mister, for opinions or for hauling? ~ Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane (1941). Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... if what you want to do is make a lot of money. ~ Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane (1941). We never lost as much as we made. ~ Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane (1941). A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl. ~ Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane (1941). Citizen Kane (1941) Movie Quotes: By Other Characters It isn't enough to tell us what a man did. You've got to tell us who he was. ~ Rawlson, Citizen Kane (1941). Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I'm lonesome. ~ Susan, Citizen Kane (1941). Love! You don't love anybody! Me or anybody else! You want to be loved - that's all you want! I'm Charles Foster Kane. Whatever you want - just name it and it's yours! Only love me! Don't expect me to love you. ~ Susan, Citizen Kane (1941). No, I don't think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything...I don't think any word can explain a man's life. ~ Thompson, Citizen Kane (1941). |