Citizen Kane

"We did it together, didn't we?"

"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper."

"A man's life is his life. It doesn't belong to the public."

"You know, Mr. Thatcher never made much money."

"I am, by any practical definition of the words, a failure."

"I gave him everything, and he gave me nothing but the burden of his expectations."

"The truth is, he was searching for something that died long before I met him."

"I wish I'd understood sooner that I was worth more than any of his ambitions."

"I was a canvas he wanted to paint, not a person he wanted to know."

"He loved the idea of transforming me. He didn't love me."

"I learned that the most beautiful palaces can be the loneliest prisons."

"If I could change one thing, it would be the day I met him."

"I was his greatest triumph and his greatest tragedy."

"He wanted to be a legend. I wanted to be happy. We couldn't both have what we wanted."

"I learned that love without respect is just control with a pretty name."

"I think he would have been happier if I'd just been a portrait on his wall."

"The opera wasn't my dream. It was his dream wearing my face."

"I've had time to think, and I've realized that I deserved better."

"He was a force of nature, but even nature can be destructive."

"I wish I'd known that my voice was enough before he told me it wasn't."

"I learned that sometimes the grandest gestures come from the smallest hearts."

"He collected the world, but he couldn't keep it, and he couldn't keep me either."

"If I could go back and talk to that young girl, I'd tell her to sing only for herself."

"I was his greatest ambition, but I was never his greatest love."

"The only power I had was the power to leave, and it took me too long to use it."

"He wanted me to be everything I wasn't and nothing that I was."

"I learned too late that you can't sing your way out of a bad marriage."

"I think the truth is that he didn't know how to love anyone but himself."

"He was never able to admit that he could be wrong about anything."

"I gave him my youth, my voice, my dreams. In return, I got a palace and loneliness."