Citizen Kane

Movie · 3 characters · 1127 quotes

Quotes from Citizen Kane

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"I want to be a useful member of society."
Charles Foster Kane Work
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"The most important thing is the character of the man."
Charles Foster Kane Leadership
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"I played the cornet a little."
Charles Foster Kane Music
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"That's the story of an American life."
Charles Foster Kane Life
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"I could have been anything you like. Perhaps I could have been a builder of cathedrals."
Charles Foster Kane Imagination
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"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper."
Charles Foster Kane Dreams
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"You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in sixty years."
Charles Foster Kane Money
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"I am, by any practical definition of the words, a self-made man."
Charles Foster Kane Success
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"I should have known that you can't fix someone with love."
Susan Alexander Wisdom
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"My voice was beautiful, but he made me hate it."
Susan Alexander Art
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"I realized I was always second to his ambitions."
Susan Alexander Truth
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"He wanted a partner in his dreams, not a wife."
Susan Alexander Relationships
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"I learned that some people can't truly love anyone but themselves."
Susan Alexander Truth
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"The music stopped playing when my heart broke."
Susan Alexander Music
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"I wish I had listened to my own voice, not his."
Susan Alexander Wisdom
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"I was his greatest creation and his biggest failure."
Susan Alexander Relationships
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"Love without equality is just tyranny."
Susan Alexander Love
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"My greatest mistake was believing his promises."
Susan Alexander
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"I learned that true wealth is independence."
Susan Alexander Wisdom
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"He thought building monuments would make me happy."
Susan Alexander Happiness
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"I gave him my voice, my time, my future."
Susan Alexander
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"The standing ovations meant nothing without his respect."
Susan Alexander
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"I realized that I deserved better than this."
Susan Alexander
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"His love was a beautiful prison with golden bars."
Susan Alexander Love
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"I wish I had valued myself more from the beginning."
Susan Alexander
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"The most important thing I learned was too late."
Susan Alexander Time
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"I learned that you can't love someone into being better."
Susan Alexander Wisdom
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"Love should expand your world, not shrink it."
Susan Alexander Love
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"My only regret is not leaving sooner."
Susan Alexander
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"I was beautiful in his eyes, but broken in my own."
Susan Alexander Beauty