Citizen Kane Famous Lines

Here are a few of our favorite lines from Citizen Kane.

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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"Rosebud."


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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"A toast Jedidiah to love on my terms. As those are the only terms anybody ever knows. His own."


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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"You know Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich I might have been a really great man."


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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"I don't know how to run a newspaper Mr. Thatcher. I just try everything I can think of."


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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"I was expelled from college. A lot of colleges. You remember. I remember."


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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"Don't believe everything you hear on the radio. Read the Inquirer."


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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"I'm an American. Always been an American."


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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"Don't worry about me. I'm Charles Foster Kane."


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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"How did I find business conditions in Europe, Mr. Bones? With great difficulty."


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Newsreel Announcer:
"Then last week, as it must to all men, death came to Charles Foster Kane."


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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"The news goes on twenty-four hours a day."


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


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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"We have no secrets from our readers Mr. Bernstein. Mr. Thatcher is one of our most devoted readers. He knows what's wrong with every copy of the Inquirer since I took over."


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Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"You're right, Mr. Thatcher. I did lose a million dollars last year. I intend 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 sixty years."


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Ruth Warrick (Emily Norton Kane):
"People will think …"
Charles Foster Kane ( Orson Welles ):
"What I want them to think."


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