64 Citizen Kane Quotes (2024) #2

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[last lines]
Raymond: Throw that junk in.

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Rawlson: It isn't enough to tell us what a man did. You've got to tell us who he was.

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Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, here's a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn't the Inquirer a three-column headline?
Herbert Carter: The news wasn't big enough.
Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.
Mr. Bernstein: That's right, Mr. Kane.

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[Susan is leaving Kane]
Charles Foster Kane: [pleading] Don't go, Susan. You mustn't go. You can't do this to me.
Susan Alexander Kane: 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.
[laughs]
Susan Alexander Kane: I can't do this to you?
[odd smile]

Susan Alexander Kane: Oh, yes I can.

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[On Kane finishing Leland's bad review of Susan's opera singing]
Mr. Bernstein: Everybody knows that story, Mr. Leland. But why did he do it? How could a man write a notice like that?
Jedediah Leland: 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.

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Boss Jim Gettys: You're the greatest fool I've ever known, Kane. If it was anybody else, I'd say what's going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. Only you're going to need more than one lesson. And you're going to get more than one lesson.

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Walter Parks Thatcher: You're too old to be calling me Mr. Thatcher, Charles.
Charles Foster Kane: You're too old to be called anything else.

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Charles Foster Kane: A toast, Jedediah: to Love on my own terms.

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Walter Parks Thatcher: [Quoting from Kane's letter] I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
[Repeats the same line but with more aggravation in his voice]
Walter Parks Thatcher: I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
[Looks directly into the camera]
Walter Parks Thatcher: Arggh!

#think

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Charles Foster Kane: This gentleman was saying...
Boss Jim Gettys: I am not a gentleman. I don't even know what a gentleman is.

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Charles Foster Kane: Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we not?
Jedediah Leland: The Inquirer already has.
Charles Foster Kane: [jokingly] You long-faced, overdressed anarchist!
Jedediah Leland: I am NOT overdressed!
Charles Foster Kane: You are too! Mr. Bernstein, look at his

necktie!

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Mr. Bernstein: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland... he was thrown out of a lot of colleges.

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Charles Foster Kane: You can't buy a bag of peanuts in this town without someone writing a song about you.

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

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Mr. Bernstein: President's niece, huh? Before Mr. Kane's through with her, she'll be a president's wife.

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Charles Foster Kane: The news goes on for 24 hours a day.

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Interviewer in 1935 Newsreel: Mr. Kane, how did you find business conditions in Europe?
Charles Foster Kane: How did I find business conditions in Europe? With great difficulty.

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Susan Alexander Kane: Forty-nine thousand acres of nothing but scenery and statues. I'm lonesome.

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Charles Foster Kane: 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!
[screams louder]
Charles Foster Kane: Gettys! I'm going to send you to Sing Sing! Sing Sing, Gettys! Sing Sing!