Citizen Kane

"I was just a small-town girl."

"He loved me, but not in the way I needed."

"That house was like a tomb."

"I tried my best, even though I failed."

"Nobody taught me how to be strong."

"I wanted to run away so many times."

"The critics were cruel, but they were right."

"I could have been someone different."

"He promised me the world, but gave me loneliness."

"I was so young and so foolish."

"Singing made me feel alive, even when I wasn't good."

"I didn't ask for any of this."

"He controlled everything about my life."

"The applause was terrible, I knew it."

"I just wanted someone to believe in me."

"Everyone was always watching, always judging."

"I felt like a prisoner in my own home."

"He wanted to make me a star, but I never wanted that."

"Money can't buy you a voice you don't have."

"They said I had no talent, but I tried."

"I was good enough to perform on stage, wasn't I?"

"He built me a palace and left me in it."

"I just wanted to be happy."

"Nobody ever listens to me."

"I wish I could go back and do it all differently."

"He never gave me anything I really wanted."

"I was a singer, you know. A real singer."

"I was always chasing tomorrow and never enjoyed today."

"I think a man's true measure is not in what he achieves, but in how he treats others."

"Perhaps the real Rosebud was never a sled at all."