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I don't know how to run a newspaper Mr ThatcherI just try everything I can think of
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Citizen Kane

I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher; I just try everything I can think of

Kane:I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher; I just try everything I can think of

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I don't know how to run a newspaper Mr Thatcher
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I just try everything I can think of
Available in 8 languages
Duration
5 seconds
Views
1,125
Timestamp in Movie
00:24:50
Uploaded
Feb 26, 2026
Genres
drama, mystery
Production
Mercury Productions,RKO Radio Pictures

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Movie Summary

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.

Actors

Orson Welles
Charles Foster Kane
Orson Welles
We have no secrets from our readers Mr BernsteinMr Thatcher is one of our most devoted readersHe knows what's wrong with every copy of the Inquirer since I took over - Citizen Kane 00:10
We have no secrets from our readers Mr BernsteinMr Thatcher...
Read the cableGirls delightful in Cuba stopCould send you prose poems about scenerybut don't feel right spending your money stopThere is no war in Cuba Signed WheelerAny answer Yes Dear WheelerYou provide the prose poems I'll provide the war - Citizen Kane 00:18
Read the cableGirls delightful in Cuba stopCould send you...
The trouble is you don't realize you're talking to two peopleAs Charles Foster Kane who owns 82 364 sharesof Public Transit preferredYou see I do have a general idea of my holdingsI sympathize with youCharles Foster Kane is a scoundrel His paper should be - Citizen Kane 00:38
The trouble is you don't realize you're talking to...
As Charles Foster Kane who owns 82 364 sharesof Public Transit preferredYou see I do have a general idea of my holdingsI sympathize with youCharles Foster Kane is a scoundrel His paper should be run out of townA committee should be formed to boycott - Citizen Kane 00:19
As Charles Foster Kane who owns 82 364 sharesof Public...
You're right Mr Thatcher I did lose a million dollars last yearI expect to lose a million dollars this yearI expect to lose a million dollars next yearYou know Mr Thatcher at the rate of a million dollars a yearI'll have to close this place in 60 years - Citizen Kane 00:16
You're right Mr Thatcher I did lose a million dollars...
You're too old to call me Mr Thatcher CharlesYou're too old to be called anything else - Citizen Kane 00:08
You're too old to call me Mr Thatcher...
We never lost as much as we made - Citizen Kane 00:05
We never lost as much as we made
Well... I always gagged on that silver spoon. - Citizen Kane 00:33
Well... I always gagged on that silver spoon.
You know Mr Bernsteinif I hadn't been very richI might have been a really great manDon't you think you areI think I did pretty well under the circumstancesWhat would you like to have beenEverything you hate - Citizen Kane 00:28
You know Mr Bernsteinif I hadn't been very richI might...
- Oh. - I beg your pardon, sir? - What? - What did you say? - Citizen Kane 00:15
- Oh. - I beg your pardon, sir? - What? - What did you say?
Who's a busy man MeI'm chairman of the board I got nothing but timeWhat do you want to know - Citizen Kane 00:08
Who's a busy man MeI'm chairman of the board I got...
A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd rememberYou take meOne day back in 1896 I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferryand as we pulled out there was another ferry pulling inand on it there was a girl waiting to get offA white - Citizen Kane 00:35
A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't...
Well it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you wantis to make a lot of money - Citizen Kane 00:11
Well it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you...
Harvard Yale Princeton Cornell SwitzerlandHe was thrown out of a lot of colleges - Citizen Kane 00:08
Harvard Yale Princeton Cornell SwitzerlandHe was thrown out...
Take a good look at it, Jedediah. - Citizen Kane 00:08
Take a good look at it, Jedediah.
There ain't no bedrooms in this joint. - Citizen Kane 00:09
There ain't no bedrooms in this joint.
Welcome, Mr. - Citizen Kane 00:45
Welcome, Mr.
The news goes on for 24 hours a day - Citizen Kane 00:07
The news goes on for 24 hours a day
The news goes on for 24 hours a day - Citizen Kane 00:05
The news goes on for 24 hours a day
You still eating I'm still hungry - Citizen Kane 00:04
You still eating I'm still hungry