Ruth Warrick
(as Emily)
Fortunio Bonanova
(as Matiste)
Everett Sloane
(as Bernstein)
Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
Leland:
[about Kane's "Declaration of Principles"] I'd like to keep that particular piece of paper myself. I have a hunch it might turn out to be something pretty important. A document...
Bernstein: Sure!
Leland: ...like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and my first report card at school.
Bernstein: Sure!
Leland: ...like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and my first report card at school.
Everett Sloane
(as Bernstein)
Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
Leland:
I can remember everything. That's my curse, young man. It's the greatest curse that's ever been inflicted on the human race: memory.
Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
Leland:
That's all he ever wanted out of life... was love. That's the tragedy of Charles Foster Kane. You see, he just didn't have any to give.
Joseph Cotten
(as Leland)
Leland:
You don't care about anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you love 'em so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want love on your own terms. Something to be played your way, according to your rules.