Orson Welles movie quotes

“Even in most primitive man, the need to create was part of his nature. This need, this talent clearly separated early man from animals, who would never know this gift.”
Orson Welles - Narrator (voice)

“Rosebud...”

Orson Welles - Kane

“It's also my pleasure to see to it that decent, hard-working people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates, just because they haven't had anybody to look after their interests.”
Orson Welles - Kane

“- Walter Parks Thatcher: What would you like to have been?
- Kane: Everything you hate.”

George Coulouris - Walter Parks Thatcher
Orson Welles - Kane

“- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Sometimes I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh-and-blood.
- Kane: Oh Emily, I don't spend that much time on the newspaper.
- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: It isn't just the time. It's what you print - attacking the President.”
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Orson Welles - Kane

“George Amberson Minafer had got his comeuppance. He'd got it three times filled and running over. But those who had longed for it were not there to see it. And they never knew it, those who were still living had forgotten all about it, and all about him.”
Orson Welles - Narrator

“Now I can afford to make some promises. The working man and the slum child know they can expect my best efforts in their interests. The nation's ordinary citizens know that I'll do everything in my power to protect the underprivileged, the underpaid, and the underfed.”

Orson Welles - Kane

“We have no secrets from our readers.”

Orson Welles - Kane

“And of course, with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic.”
Orson Welles - Narrator (voice)

“- Kane: Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we not?
- Jedediah Leland: The Inquirer already has.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“- Kane: Don't go, Susan. You mustn't go. You can't do this to me.
- Susan Alexander Kane: So it's you who this is being done to. It's not me at all. Not how I feel. Not what it means to me.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Dorothy Comingore - Susan Alexander Kane

“- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Charles, people will think...
- Kane: What I tell them to think.”
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Orson Welles - Kane

“- Unicron: You belong to me now.
- Megatron: I belong to nobody!
- Unicron: Perhaps, I misjudged you. Proceed on your way to oblivion.
- Megatron: No, no. I accept your terms! I accept!
- Unicron: Excellent!”
Orson Welles - Unicron
Frank Welker - Megatron

“- Kane: He's still a well-meaning fathead who's letting a pack of high-pressure crooks run his administration. This whole oil scandal...
- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: He happens to be the President, Charles, not you.
- Kane: That's a mistake that will be corrected one of these days.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane

“I made no campaign promises, because until a few weeks ago, I had no hope of being elected. Now however, I am something more than a hope.”

Orson Welles - Kane