Citizen Kane

"The world thought I was lucky to marry him. The world was wrong."

"I was his greatest investment and his greatest loss."

"He wanted to change me into someone magnificent. I wanted him to accept me as I was."

"If only I'd been stronger, or braver, or different."

"I learned that some men collect people the way they collect art."

"He was obsessed with control, and I was the only thing he couldn't quite control."

"The sled meant more to him than I ever did."

"I didn't know then that you can't change someone who doesn't want to change."

"He loved power more than he could ever love me."

"Every night on stage, I was performing not for the audience, but for his judgment."

"I wish I'd had the courage to leave sooner."

"He built an empire, but he couldn't build a home."

"The truth is, I was never cut out to be Mrs. Kane."

"I learned that you can't sing someone into loving you better."

"He was too big, too grand, too consuming. There was no room for me in his world."

"I wanted to be remembered for my talent, not my marriage."

"The world sees Citizen Kane. I see the man who took my voice away."

"I suppose I was his greatest failure, and that destroyed him more than anything else."

"He gave me everything except what I really wanted - a choice."

"I wasn't strong enough to resist him, and that's something I've had to live with."

"Change came too fast and demanded too much."

"At least when I was singing in the nightclub, I was free."

"I think he loved the idea of me more than he loved me."

"He wanted to be remembered. I just wanted to be happy."

"If I'd known then what I know now, I would have run."

"Every performance felt like I was performing for an audience of one - and he was never satisfied."

"I was his greatest ambition and his greatest disappointment."

"The palace was beautiful, but beauty doesn't warm a cold heart."

"I learned that admiration is not the same as love."

"He told me I could be great. He never asked if I wanted to be."