Mr. Bernstein President's niece, huh? Before Mr. Kane's through with her, she'll be a president's wife.
Played by Everett Sloane 
Citizen Kane (1941) · 68 quotes
Citizen Kane (1941) · 68 quotes
Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in Citizen Kane (1941): in 12 of its 68 quotes
Most scenes with: Charles Foster Kane (3), Jedediah Leland (2)
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland... he was thrown out of a lot of colleges.
More lines from Mr. Bernstein
5 quotes Mr. Bernstein Mr. Bernstein We never lost as much as we made.
Mr. Bernstein [to Jedediah Leland]
Mr. Kane is finishing the review you started - he's writing a bad notice. I guess that'll show you.
Mr. Bernstein Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.
Mr. 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.
Scenes with Mr. Bernstein
6 scenes
These men who were with the Chronicle. Weren't they just as devoted to the Chronicle politics as they are now to our policies?
Bernstein Sure, they're just like anybody else. They got work to do, they do it! Only they happen to be the best men in the business!
Do we stand for the same things the Chronicle stands for, Bernstein?
Bernstein Certainly not. Listen, Mr. Kane, he'll have them changed to his kind of newspapermen in a week!
There's always a chance, of course, that they'll change Mr. Kane, without his knowing it.
Bernstein There's a lot of statues in Europe you haven't bought yet.
You can't blame me. They've been making statues for some two thousand years, and I've only been collecting for five.
Read the cable.
Bernstein "Girls delightful in Cuba. Stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery, but don't feel right spending your money. Stop. There is no war in Cuba, signed Wheeler." Any answer?
Yes. "Dear Wheeler: you provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war."
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...
He made an awful lot of money.
Bernstein Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... if all you want to do is make a lot of money.
Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years later, I got my candy-all of it. Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer! Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle, will you please? It'll make you all happy to learn that our circulation this morning was the greatest in New York, 684,000.
Mr. Bernstein Six hundred and eighty-four thousand one hundred and thirty-two!
Right! Having thus welcomed you, I hope you'll forgive my rudeness in taking leave of you. I'm going abroad next week for a vacation. I've promised my doctor for some time now that I'd leave when I could, and I now realize that I can't.
Bernstein Say, Mr. Kane, as long as you're promising, there's a lot of pictures and statues in Europe you haven't bought yet.
You can't blame me, Mr. Bernstein. They've been making statues for two thousand years, and I've only been buying for five.
Bernstein Promise me, Mr. Kane.
I promise you, Mr. Bernstein.
Bernstein Thank you.
Mr. Bernstein? You don't expect me to keep any of those promises, do you?
