Quotes from Citizen Kane (1941)

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Dorothy Comingore
Susan: 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
- Dorothy Comingore (as Susan) in Citizen Kane (1941)

Everett Sloane
Bernstein: [to Leland] Mr. Kane is finishing the review you started - he's writing a bad notice. I guess that'll show you.
- Everett Sloane (as Bernstein) in Citizen Kane (1941)

Everett Sloane
Bernstein: 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.
- Everett Sloane (as Bernstein) in Citizen Kane (1941)

Everett Sloane
Bernstein: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland... he was thrown out of a lot of colleges.
- Everett Sloane (as Bernstein) in Citizen Kane (1941)

Everett Sloane
Bernstein: Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.
- Everett Sloane (as Bernstein) in Citizen Kane (1941)

Everett Sloane
Bernstein: President's niece, huh? Before Mr. Kane's through with her, she'll be a president's wife.
- Everett Sloane (as Bernstein) in Citizen Kane (1941)

Everett Sloane
Bernstein: We never lost as much as we made.
- Everett Sloane (as Bernstein) in Citizen Kane (1941)

Everett Sloane
Bernstein: Who's the busiest man? Me? I've got nothing but time! What do you wanna know?
- Everett Sloane (as Bernstein) in Citizen Kane (1941)

William Alland
Female reporter: If you could've found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would've explained everything.
Thompson: 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. No, I guess Rosebud is just a... piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece.
- William Alland (as Thompson) in Citizen Kane (1941)

Joseph Cotten
Reporter 1: What's that?
Reporter 2: Another Venus.
Reporter 1: Twenty-five thousand bucks. That's a lot of money to pay for a dame without a head.

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