Quotes from Citizen Kane (1941)
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Ruth Warrick
(as Emily)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
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Matiste:
[to Susan] Some people can sing, some people cannot. Impossible! Impossible!
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Fortunio Bonanova
(as Matiste)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
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Thompson:
He made an awful lot of money.
Bernstein: Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... if what you want to do is make a lot of money.
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Everett Sloane
(as Bernstein)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
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Leland:
[about Kane's "Declaration of Principles"] I'd like to keep that particular piece of paper myself. I have a hunch it might turn out to be something pretty important. A document...
Bernstein: Sure! Leland: ...like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and my first report card at school.
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Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
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Leland:
Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?
Bernstein: Yes. If you thought I'd answer you any differently than what Mr. Kane tells you...
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Everett Sloane
(as Bernstein)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
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Leland:
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.
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Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
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Leland:
I suppose he had a private sort of greatness, but he kept it to himself.
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Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
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Leland:
That's all he ever wanted out of life... was love. That's the tragedy of Charles Foster Kane. You see, he just didn't have any to give.
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Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
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Leland:
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.
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Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
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Susan:
Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I'm lonesome.
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Dorothy Comingore
(as Susan)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
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