Film Quotes by Joseph Cotten
45 quotes
Year: 1951
Director:
Fletcher Markle
Director:
Fletcher Markle
Dupin:
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
The Pharmacist: I'm not a fox.
Dupin: ...now you're no longer sleeping. Open up! This is vital, a matter of life and death.
The Pharmacist: I'm not a fox.
Dupin: ...now you're no longer sleeping. Open up! This is vital, a matter of life and death.
--
Joseph Cotten
(as Dupin)
in
The Man with a Cloak
(1951)
Year: 1948
Director:
William Dieterle
Director:
William Dieterle
Eben Adams:
I want you, not dreams of you!
--
Joseph Cotten
(as Eben Adams)
in
Portrait of Jennie
(1948)
Year: 1953
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Director:
Henry Hathaway
George Loomis:
Too bad, they can't play it for you now, Rose.
--
Joseph Cotten
in
Niagara
(1953)
Year: 1947
Director:
H.C. Potter
Director:
H.C. Potter
Glenn Morley:
She doesn't know anything about politics. How can she, I ask you, be expected to give of such things as the minimum wage bill, the full employment bill, the Missouri Valley, the Columbia Valley authorities amendments, the permanent MBPC, atomic bomb control, poll tax, national... , well a hundred other things.
Katrin Holstrom: Can you?
Glenn Morley: That's beside the point. I am already a congressman.
Katrin Holstrom: Can you?
Glenn Morley: That's beside the point. I am already a congressman.
--
Joseph Cotten
(as Glenn Morley)
in
The Farmer's Daughter
(1947)
Year: 1966
Director:
Russell Rouse
Director:
Russell Rouse
Kenneth Regan:
These are exhibitors' reports, they speak very clearly and very loudly. They say do not send any more Frank Fane product. Send *botulism* or *typhus*, don't send Fain.
--
Joseph Cotten
in
The Oscar
(1966)
Year: 1941
Director:
Orson Welles
Director:
Orson Welles
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.
Bernstein: Sure!
Leland: ...like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and my first report card at school.
--
Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Orson Welles
Director:
Orson Welles
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.
--
Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Orson Welles
Director:
Orson Welles
Leland:
I suppose he had a private sort of greatness, but he kept it to himself.
--
Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Orson Welles
Director:
Orson Welles
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.
--
Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Orson Welles
Director:
Orson Welles
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.
--
Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
in
Citizen Kane
(1941)