“I am leaving the valley with regret toward those who have helped me here, and who have let me help them. But, for the rest of you, those of you who have only proved that I have wasted my time among you, I have only this to say. There is not one among you who has had the courage to come to me and accuse me of wrongdoing.”

Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

“You are a lot of cowards to go against him. He has done nothing against you and he never has and you know it well. How some of you, you smug-faced hypocrites, can sit in the same chapel with him I cannot tell.”

Sara Allgood - Mrs. Morgan

“Mr. Charles Foster Kane, in every essence of his social beliefs, and by the dangerous manner in which he has persistently attacked the American traditions of private property, initiative, and opportunity for advancement, is in fact, nothing more or less than a Communist!”

George Coulouris - Walter Parks Thatcher

“- Shelby Carpenter: Waldo for your own good, I'm warning you to stop implying that I had anything to do with Laura's death.
- Waldo Lydecker: Very well, I'll stop implying: I'll make a direct statement.”
Vincent Price - Shelby Carpenter
Clifton Webb - Waldo Lydecker

- "Tootie" Smith: He tried to kill me...
- Esther Smith: It was the streetcar. I think it hit her.
- "Tootie" Smith: No, it wasn't a streetcar. It was John Truett. He tried to kill me.
Margaret O'Brien - "Tootie" Smith
Judy Garland - Esther Smith