Dupin:
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
The Pharmacist: I'm not a fox.
Dupin: ...now you're no longer sleeping. Open up! This is vital, a matter of life and death.
--Joseph Cotten (as Dupin) in The Man with a Cloak
The Pharmacist: I'm not a fox.
Dupin: ...now you're no longer sleeping. Open up! This is vital, a matter of life and death.
--Joseph Cotten (as Dupin) in The Man with a Cloak
Glenn Morley:
She doesn't know anything about politics. How can she, I ask you, be expected to give of such things as the minimum wage bill, the full employment bill, the Missouri Valley, the Columbia Valley authorities amendments, the permanent MBPC, atomic bomb control, poll tax, national... , well a hundred other things.
Katrin Holstrom: Can you?
Glenn Morley: That's beside the point. I am already a congressman.
--Joseph Cotten (as Glenn Morley) in The Farmer's Daughter
Katrin Holstrom: Can you?
Glenn Morley: That's beside the point. I am already a congressman.
--Joseph Cotten (as Glenn Morley) in The Farmer's Daughter
Kenneth Regan:
These are exhibitors' reports, they speak very clearly and very loudly. They say do not send any more Frank Fane product. Send *botulism* or *typhus*, don't send Fain.
--Joseph Cotten (as ) in The Oscar
--Joseph Cotten (as ) in The Oscar
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.
--Joseph Cotten (as Leland) in Citizen Kane
Bernstein: Sure!
Leland: ...like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and my first report card at school.
--Joseph Cotten (as Leland) in Citizen Kane
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) in Citizen Kane
--Joseph Cotten (as Leland) in Citizen Kane
Leland:
I suppose he had a private sort of greatness, but he kept it to himself.
--Joseph Cotten (as Leland) in Citizen Kane
--Joseph Cotten (as Leland) in Citizen Kane
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) in Citizen Kane
--Joseph Cotten (as Leland) in Citizen Kane
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.
--Joseph Cotten (as Leland) in Citizen Kane
--Joseph Cotten (as Leland) in Citizen Kane
