Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane is loosely based on the life of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst
- Directed by Orson Welles and written by Herman J. Mankiewicz . [1]
Charles Foster Kane
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- You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years.
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- I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?
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- Don't believe everything you hear on the radio
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- 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.
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- The news goes on for 24 hours a day.
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- You can't buy a bag of peanuts in this town without someone writing a song about you.
Conversations & others
- Mr. Bernstein:We never lost as much as we made.
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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: Hello Jedediah.
- Leland: Hello, Charlie. I didn't know we were speaking...
- Charles Foster Kane: Sure, we're speaking, Jedediah: you're fired.
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- 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.
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- Bernstein: Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.
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- Charles Foster Kane: You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
- Thatcher: Don't you think you are?
- Charles Foster Kane: I think I did pretty well under the circumstances.
- Thatcher: What would you like to have been?
- Charles Foster Kane: Everything you hate.
