Citizen Kane Quotes

Citizen Kane is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Citizen Kane stopped airing in 1970.

It features Orson Welles as producer, Bernard Herrmann in charge of musical score, and Gregg Toland as head of cinematography.

Citizen Kane is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Citizen Kane is 119 minutes long. Citizen Kane is distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.

The cast includes: Everett Sloane as Mr. Bernstein, Sonny Bupp as Charles Foster Kane, George Coulouris as Walter Parks Thatcher, Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander Kane, Joseph Cotten as Jedediah Leland, William Alland as Jerry Thompson, Ruth Warrick as Emily Monroe Norton Kane, Paul Stewart as Raymond, Erskine Sanford as Herbert Carter, Philip Van Zandt as Rawlson, Agnes Moorehead as Mary Kane, Sonny Bupp as Charles Foster Kane III, and Fortunio Bonanova as Matiste.

Citizen Kane Quotes

Everett Sloane as Mr. Bernstein

• (Everett Sloane) "Isn't it wonderful? Such a party."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Yeah"
• (Everett Sloane) "What's the matter?"
• (Joseph Cotten) "Bernstein, these men who are now with the Inquirer, who were with the Chronicle until yesterday --"
• (Joseph Cotten) "Bernstein, Bernstein, these men who were with the Chronicle, weren't they just as devoted to the Chronicle policies as they are now to our policies?"
• (Everett Sloane) "Sure they are just like anybody else. They got work to do, they do it. Only they happen to be the best men in the business."
• (Joseph Cotten) "Do we stand for the same things the Chronicle stands for, Mr. Bernstein?"
• (Everett Sloane) "Certainly not. Listen, Mr. Kane will change them to his kind of newspapermen in a week."
• (Joseph Cotten) "There's always a chance, of course, that they will change Mr. Kane without his knowing it."

• (Everett Sloane) "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) "Everybody knows that story, Mr. Leland. But why did he do it? How could a man write a notice like that?"
• (Joseph Cotten) "You just don't know Charlie. He thought that by finishing that notice he could show me he was an honest man. He was always trying to prove something. The whole thing about Susie being an opera singer, that was trying to prove something. You know what the headline was the day before the election, "Candidate Kane found in love nest with quote, singer, unquote." He was gonna take the quotes off the singer."

• (Everett Sloane) "Who's the busiest man? Me? I've got nothing but time. What do you wanna know?"

• (Everett Sloane) "Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money."

• (Everett Sloane) "Sentimental fellow, aren't you?"
• (Paul Stewart) "Hmmm -- yes and no."

• (Everett Sloane) "President's niece, huh? Before Mr. Kane's through with her, she'll be a president's wife."

• (Everett Sloane) "There's a lot of statues in Europe you haven't bought yet."
• (Sonny Bupp) "You can't blame me. They've been making statues for some two thousand years, and I've only been collecting for five."

• (Everett Sloane) "Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of."

• (Everett Sloane) "Mr. Kane is finishing the review you started; he's writing a bad notice. I guess that'll show you."

• (Unnamed) "There ain't no bedrooms in this joint, that's a newspaper building."
• (Everett Sloane) "You're getting paid, Mister, for opinions or for hauling?"

George Coulouris as Walter Parks Thatcher

• (George Coulouris) "I think it would be fun to run a newspaper."
• (George Coulouris) "I think it would be fun to run a newspaper."
• (George Coulouris) "Arggh."

• (George Coulouris) "You're too old to be calling me Mr. Thatcher, Charles."
• (Sonny Bupp) "You're too old to be called anything else."

Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander Kane

• (Dorothy Comingore) "Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I'm lonesome."

• (Dorothy Comingore) "I don't know many people."
• (Sonny Bupp) "I know too many people. I guess we're both lonely."

• (Dorothy Comingore) "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."

• (The Headwaiter) "Miss Alexander? This is Mr. Thompson, Miss Alexander."
• (Dorothy Comingore) "I want another drink, John."
• (The Headwaiter) "Right away. Will you have something, Mr. Thompson?"
• (William Alland) "I'll have a highball, please."
• (Dorothy Comingore) "Who told you you could sit down?"
• (William Alland) "I thought maybe we could have a talk together."
• (Dorothy Comingore) "Well, think again. Can't you people leave me alone? I'm minding my own business, you mind yours."
• (William Alland) "If I could just have a little talk with you, Miss Alexander, I'd like to ask you --"
• (Dorothy Comingore) "Get out of here. Get out."
• (William Alland) "Sorry, maybe some other time. She won't talk to nobody. Gino, get her another highball."
• (The Headwaiter) "She just won't talk to nobody, Mr. Thompson."
• (William Alland) "Okay."

Sonny Bupp as Charles Foster Kane III

• (Sonny Bupp) "Rosebud --"

• (Interviewer in 1935 Newsreel) "Mr. Kane, how did you find business conditions in Europe?"
• (Sonny Bupp) "How did I find business conditions in Europe? With great difficulty."

• (Sonny Bupp) "The news goes on for 24 hours a day."

• (Sonny Bupp) "We have no secrets from our readers. Mr. Thatcher is one of our most devoted readers, Mr. Bernstein. He knows what's wrong with every issue since I've taken charge."

• (Sonny Bupp) "Mother, is Pop governor yet?"
• (Ruth Warrick) "Not yet, Junior."

• (Sonny Bupp) "Read the cable."
• (Everett Sloane) ""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?"
• (Sonny Bupp) "Yes. "Dear Wheeler: you provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war.""

• (Sonny Bupp) "I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?"

• (Sonny Bupp) "There's only one person in the world who's going to decide what I'm going to do and that's me --"

• (Sonny Bupp) "I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher; I just try everything I can think of."

• (Sonny Bupp) "Mr. Carter, here's a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn't the Inquirer a three-column headline?"
• (Erskine Sanford) "The news wasn't big enough."
• (Sonny Bupp) "Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough."
• (Everett Sloane) "That's right, Mr. Kane."

• (Sonny Bupp) "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."
• (Sonny Bupp) "Gettys. I'm going to send you to Sing Sing. Sing Sing, Gettys. Sing Sing."

• (Sonny Bupp) "Don't believe everything you hear on the radio."

• (Sonny Bupp) "Don't go, Susan. You mustn't go. You can't do this to me."
• (Dorothy Comingore) "I see. So it's YOU who this is being done to. It's not me at all. Not how I feel. Not what it means to me."
• (Dorothy Comingore) "I can't do this to you?"
• (Dorothy Comingore) "Oh, yes I can."

• (Sonny Bupp) "You can't buy a bag of peanuts in this town without someone writing a song about you."

• (Sonny Bupp) "A toast, Jedediah: to Love on my own terms."

• (Sonny Bupp) "As Charles Foster Kane who owns eighty-two thousand, six hundred and thirty-four shares of public transit; you see, I do have a general idea of my holdings; I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of town. A committee should be formed to boycott him. You may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of one thousand dollars."

• (Sonny Bupp) "This gentleman was saying --"
• (Boss Jim Gettys) "I am not a gentleman. I don't even know what a gentleman is."

• (Sonny Bupp) "I always gagged on the silver spoon."

• (Sonny Bupp) "You know, Mr. Thatcher, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man."
• (George Coulouris) "Don't you think you are?"
• (Sonny Bupp) "I think I did pretty well under the circumstances."
• (George Coulouris) "What would you like to have been?"
• (Sonny Bupp) "Everything you hate."

• (Sonny Bupp) "I don't think there's one word that can describe a man's life."

Fortunio Bonanova as Matiste

• (Fortunio Bonanova) "Some people can sing, some people cannot. Impossible. Impossible."

Joseph Cotten as Jedediah Leland

• (Joseph Cotten) "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) "I suppose he had a private sort of greatness, but he kept it to himself."

• (Joseph Cotten) "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) "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) "Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?"
• (Everett Sloane) "Yes. If you thought I'd answer you any differently than what Mr. Kane tells you --"

• (Joseph Cotten) "You still eating?"
• (Sonny Bupp) "I'm still hungry."

Philip Van Zandt as Rawlson

• (Philip Van Zandt) "It isn't enough to tell us what a man did. You've got to tell us who he was."

Agnes Moorehead as Mary Kane

• (Kane's Father) "A good whuppin's all the kid really needs."
• (Agnes Moorehead) "You think that, don't you?"
• (Kane's Father) "Yeah."
• (Agnes Moorehead) "That's why I'm sending him where you can't get at him."

Ruth Warrick as Emily Monroe Norton Kane

• (Ruth Warrick) "He happens to be the president, Charles, not you."
• (Sonny Bupp) "That's a mistake that will be corrected one of these days."

• (Ruth Warrick) "Really Charles, people will think- --"
• (Sonny Bupp) "-what I tell them to think."

Paul Stewart as Raymond

• (Paul Stewart) "Throw that junk in."

William Alland as Jerry Thompson

• (William Alland) "He made an awful lot of money."
• (Everett Sloane) "Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money -- if what you want to do is make a lot of money."

• (Unnamed) "If you could've found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would've explained everything."
• (William Alland) "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."

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