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1	!!From [[Film/CitizenKane the movie]]
2
3	->''[[LongRunners Seventy years in a man's life]]. [[{{Understatement}} That's a lot to try to get into a newsreel]].''
4	-->-- News on the March crewman.
5
6	->'''Charles:''' I'll provide the people of this city with a daily paper that will tell all the news honestly. I will also provide...\
7	'''Jed Leland:''' [[ItsAllAboutMe That's two sentences starting with]] "I".
8
9	->''I can remember absolutely everything, young man. That's my curse. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race: Memory. I was his oldest friend, and as far as I was concerned, he behaved like a swine. Not that Charlie was ever brutal. He just did brutal things. [[HiddenDisdainReveal Maybe I wasn't his friend]], but if I wasn't, [[FriendlessBackground he never had one]]. Maybe I was what you nowadays [[ExtremeDoormat call a stooge]]...You're a reporter and you want to know what I think about Charlie Kane. [[ICouldaBeenAContender I suppose he had some private sort of greatness]]. But he kept it to himself. He never gave himself away. He never gave anything away. He just left you a tip. [[UnclePennybags He had a generous mind]]. I don't suppose anybody ever had so many opinions. But he never believed in anything except Charlie Kane. He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life. [[DyingAlone I suppose he died without one]]. [[DownerEnding That must have been pretty unpleasant]]. Of course, a lot of us check out without having any special convictions about death. But we do know what we're leaving. We do believe in something. [[MoodWhiplash Are you absolutely sure you haven't got a cigar]]?''
10	-->-- '''Jed Leland'''
11
12	->''I was on my way to the Western Manhattan Warehouse...in search of my youth. You see, my mother died a long time ago. Her things were put in storage out West. There wasn't any other place to put them. I thought I'd send for them now. Tonight I was going to take a look at them. A sort of sentimental journey.''
13	-->-- '''Charles Foster Kane'''
14
15	->'''Raymond the Butler:''' He just said: "Rosebud. " Then he dropped the glass ball and it broke on the floor. He didn't say anything after that, and I knew he was dead. He said all kinds of things that didn't mean anything.\
16	'''Reporter Jerry Thompson:''' Sentimental fellow, aren't you?\
17	'''Raymond:''' (shrugs) Yes and no.
18
19	->''Throw that junk in.''
20	-->-- Last lines of the film, as the Rosebud sled is tossed into the flames
21
22	!!"Charlie Kane" Song
23
24	->There is a man - a certain man -\
25	And [[UnclePennybags for the poor you may]] be sure\
26	That he'll do all he can!\
27	Who is this one?\
28	This fav'rite son?\
29	Just by his action\
30	[[RabbleRouser Has the Traction magnates]] on the run?\
31	[[SmokingIsCool Who loves to smoke]]?\
32	[[TheGadfly Enjoys a joke]]?\
33	Who wouldn't get a bit upset\
34	[[SlummingIt If he were really broke]]?\
35	With wealth and fame,\
36	[[BlatantLies He's still the same]].\
37	I'll bet you five you're not alive\
38	If you don't know his name.\
39	What is his name?\
40	It's Charlie Kane.\
41	(Chorus: It's Mister Kane!)\
42	He doesn't like that Mister\
43	[[ModestRoyalty He likes good old Charlie Kane]].
44
45	->Who says a miss\
46	Was made to kiss?\
47	[[TheCasanova And when he meets one, always tries]]\
48	To do exactly this?\
49	Who buys the food?\
50	Who buys the drinks?\
51	Who [[ConspicuousConsumption thinks that dough was made to spend]],\
52	And acts the way he thinks?\
53	Now is it Joe?\
54	(Chorus: No, no, no, no!)\
55	I'll bet you ten you aren't men\
56	If you don't really know!
57	-->-- Song lyrics for "Charlie Kane", written by Herman Ruby
58
59	!!Quotes about Citizen Kane
60	->'''Rachel:''' (talking about ''Film/TheShining'') What's the big deal? It's not like it's ''Citizen Kane''.\
61	'''Joey:''' Have you watched ''Citizen Kane''?\
62	'''Rachel:''' It's pretty boring but it's like a really big deal.
63	-->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}''
64
65	->''Kane would not have become the unquestionable masterpiece it is without the crystalline point of view of the director and the actor, as mapped out in the script that Welles guided and co-wrote. The film could have been fashioned as a roman a clef of the life of William Randolph Hearst, which was only one of its inspirations. Co-scenarist Herman Mankiewicz was tempted by that line of approach. Kane could have been depicted as an ogre, a despot, which to some extent he is—but not entirely. Welles had a larger idea of the character that makes any historical knowledge of Hearst irrelevant to appreciating the film nowadays. Welles saw Kane not as Hearst but as a prototypical American sultan for whom money can buy everything, except votes and love. But Welles humanized the character in the script and by his acting—the dancing Kane, the ear-wiggles, and more. By the end of the film, one feels a genuine pity for Kane, his self-destruction, and the Rosebud that eluded him.''
66	-->-- [[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/15/searching-for-orson-welles-s-rosebud.html Patrick McGilligan]]
67
68	->'''Peter:''' (taping over the video store copy of the film) [[ItWasHisSled It's his sled.]] It was his sled from when he was a kid. There, I just saved you two long, boobless hours.
69	-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Family Guy]]''
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