Don't worry about me Gettys. 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. [louder] Gettys. I'm going to send you to Sing Sing. Sing Sing Gettys. Sing Sing.
Charles Foster Kane
Orson Welles · 39 quotes
Jedediah Leland
Joseph Cotten · 12 quotes
Mr. Bernstein
Everett Sloane · 12 quotes
Susan
Dorothy Comingore · 7 quotes
Emily
Ruth Warrick · 5 quotes
Walter Parks Thatcher
George Coulouris · 4 quotes
Newsreel Narrator
William Alland · 3 quotes
Thompson
William Alland · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Charles Foster Kane & Susan (5), Charles Foster Kane & Jedediah Leland (4), Charles Foster Kane & Emily (4)
Citizen Kane quotes
Page 4 of 5Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland... he was thrown out of a lot of colleges.
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.
I always gagged on that silver spoon.
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.
I don't think there's one word that can describe a mans life.
I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?
I suppose he had some private sort of greatness, but he kept it to himself. He never gave himself away. He never gave anything away, he just left you a tip, hmm? Ha. He had a generous mind. I don't suppose anybody ever had so many opinions. But he never believed in anything except Charlie Kane. He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life. I suppose he died without one. It must have been pretty unpleasant. Of course, a lot of us check out without having any special convictions about death, but we do know what we believe in, we do believe in something.
I was on my way to the Western Manhattan Warehouse in search of my youth. You see, my mother died a long time ago and her things were put in storage out West. There wasn't any other place to put them. I thought I'd send for them now. Tonight, I was going to take a look at them. You know, a sort of sentimental journey.
If I don't look after the interests of the underprivileged, maybe somebody else will, maybe somebody without any money or property...and that would be too bad!
If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.
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 had anybody to look after their interests...
Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.
President's niece, huh? Before Mr. Kane's through with her, she'll be a president's wife.
Rosebud...