Citizen Kane

"My voice was never the problem. The problem was everything else."

"I wanted a husband. He wanted a project."

"He was kind to me, in his own way. But kindness without respect isn't enough."

"Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I'd said no."

"I never understood why he needed to control everything."

"What is Rosebud, anyway? Just a memory of who I used to be."

"I thought love meant letting someone remake you. I was wrong."

"The only time he really listened to me was when I was singing his songs."

"He needed me to succeed so that he could feel successful."

"I was talented, but talent isn't everything if you don't have the right support."

"Xanadu was supposed to be paradise. It was anything but."

"I gave up my singing career for him. I sometimes wonder if that was the biggest mistake."

"He saw what he wanted to see, not who I really was."

"Those early days, before the opera, those were real."

"I learned that you can't force someone to love you the way you want to be loved."

"The applause meant nothing when he was disappointed in me."

"I wish I had been braver when I was young."

"He collected things - art, newspapers, and eventually me."

"Money can't buy you happiness, no matter what they tell you."

"I had a gift for music, but he insisted on controlling how I used it."

"Every night on that stage, I felt like I was dying a little."

"He wanted to mold me into something magnificent, but I was fine as I was."

"The best part of my life was before I became Susan Kane."

"I never asked for any of this."

"Love should make you feel free, not trapped."

"Singing in a nightclub was honest work. I was happy then."

"He said I had potential, but he meant he had plans for me."

"I was just a girl when I met him. Everything happened so fast."

"The opera house was his dream, not mine."

"I tried so hard to please him, but it was never enough."