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 Joseph Cotten Quotation"I didn't care about the movies really. I was tall. I could talk. It was easy to do". "Orson Welles lists 'Citizen Kane' as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for 'Shadow of a doubt' and Sir Carol Reed chose 'The Third Man' - and I'm in all of them." [on Orson Welles] "I know a little about Orson's childhood and seriously doubt if he ever was a child." Movie Title: Shadow of a Doubt (1943) as Uncle Charlie: Uncle Charlie : What's the use of looking backward? What's the use of looking ahead? Today's the thing -- that's my philosophy. Today. Uncle Charlie : You think you know something, don't you? You think you're the clever little girl who knows something. There's so much you don't know, so much. What do you know, really? You're just an ordinary little girl, living in an ordinary little town. You wake up every morning of your life and you know perfectly well that there's nothing in the world to trouble you. You go through your ordinary little day, and at night you sleep your untroubled ordinary little sleep, filled with peaceful stupid dreams. And I brought you nightmares. Or did I? Or was it a silly, inexpert little lie? You live in a dream. You're a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something. Uncle Charlie : The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands, dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women... Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old? Uncle Charlie : I can't face the world in the morning. I must have coffee before I can speak. [Uncle Charlie visits the bank] Uncle Charlie : Hello, Joe. Can you stop embezzling a minute and give me your attention? Joseph Newton : Oh, uh, Charles, we don't joke about such things here. Uncle Charlie : Aw, what's a little shortage in the books at the end of the month? Any good bank clerk can cover up a little shortage. Isn't that right, Charlie? Young Charlie : Uncle Charlie, you're awful. Everyone can hear you. Uncle Charlie : Good thing they can. We all know what banks are. Look all right to an outsider, but no one knows what goes on when the doors are locked. Can't fool me, though. Uncle Charlie : Forty thousand dollars is no joke, not to him, I bet. It's a joke to me. The whole world's a joke to me. [To the telegraph operator] Uncle Charlie : Mrs. Henderson, do you believe in telepathy? Mrs. Henderson : Well, I ought to. That's my business. Uncle Charlie : Oh, not telegraphy. Mental telepathy. Like, well, suppose you have a thought, and suppose the thought's about someone you're in tune with, and then across thousands of miles, that person knows what you're thinking about and answers you, and it's all mental. Mrs. Henderson : I don't know what you're talking about. I only send telegrams the normal way. Joseph Newton : Don't put the hat on the bed. Uncle Charlie : Superstitious, Joe? Joseph Newton : No, but I don't believe in inviting trouble. Uncle Charlie : I got in the habit of carrying a lot of cash with me when I was traveling. Mr. Green : Dangerous habit, Mr. Oakley. Uncle Charlie : Never lost a penny in my life, Mr. Green. I guess heaven takes care of fools and scoundrels. Uncle Charlie : How was church, Charlie? Did you count the house? Turn anybody away? Young Charlie : No. Room enough for everyone. Uncle Charlie : Well, I'm glad to hear that. The show's been running such a long time, I thought maybe attendance might be falling off. Movie Title: The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) as Dr. Vesalius: Dr. Vesalius : Your wife no, Phibes, but you I will kill! Dr. Phibes : But you can't, Doctor Vesalius. I am already... dead. Dr. Vesalius : Your wife, no, Phibes, but you I will kill! Dr. Vesalius : I didn't kill your wife! Dr. Anton Phibes : No? Dr. Vesalius : I tried to save her! Dr. Phibes : With a knife in your hands? Dr. Vesalius : For God's sake! Dr. Anton Phibes : Don't cry upon God, Dr. Vesalius. He is on my side! He led me, showed me the way in my quest for vengeance. Dr. Anton Phibes : Work faster, Doctor! The acid is descending! My wife existed only six minutes on the operating table, and then she was dead. You murdered her! Dr. Vesalius : No! Dr. Anton Phibes : Murdered her! Dr. Vesalius : Human error won't stop him. He's had years to hide, to plot this damnable thing. He's compelling himself to follow exactly the classic death pattern of the G'tach. It's the psychic force that holds the man together, this maniacal precision. If we could just throw it off, interrupt the cycle, then he might be stopped by his own inflexible standards. Movie Title: Love Letters (1945) as Allen Quinton: Allen Quinton : Call her... a pin-up girl of the spirit. Allen Quinton : I couldn't possibly say what I'd like to say right now. Singleton: What? Allen Quinton : I'd like to say that you're lovely. Singelton: Go ahead, say it. I'd like to hear it. Allen Quinton : You're lovely. Movie Title: Citizen Kane (1941) as Jed Leland / Jedediah Leland / Leland: Charles Foster Kane : Hello Jedediah. Leland : Hello, Charlie. I didn't know we were speaking... Charles Foster Kane : Sure, we're speaking, Jedediah: you're fired. Jedediah Leland : You still eating? Charles Foster Kane : I'm still hungry. Leland : Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm? Bernstein : Yes. If you thought I'd answer you any differently than what Mr. Kane tells you... Charles Foster Kane : Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we not? Jed Leland : The Inquirer already has. Charles Foster Kane : You long-faced, overdressed anarchist. Jed Leland : I am not overdressed. Charles Foster Kane : You are too. Mr. Bernstein, look at his necktie. [On Kane finishing Leland's bad review of Susan's opera singing] Thompson : Everybody knows that story, Mr. Leland. But why did he do it? How could a man write a notice like that? Leland : You just don't know Charlie. He thought that by finishing that notice he could show me he was an honest man. He was always trying to prove something. The whole thing about Susie being an opera singer, that was trying to prove something. You know what the headline was the day before the election, "Candidate Kane found in love nest with quote, singer, unquote." He was gonna take the quotes off the singer. 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. Movie Title: Soylent Green (1973) as Simonson: Gilbert : Uh... they told me to uh- to say that they were sorry, but that you had become... unreliable. Simonson : That's true. Gilbert : They can't risk, uh- catastrophe, they say. Simonson : They're right. Gilbert : Then uh, this is right? Simonson : No, not right. Necessary. Gilbert : To who? Simonson : To... God. Movie Title: The Third Man (1949) as Martins: Calloway : You don't know what you're mixing in. Why don't you catch the next plane? Martins : I'll catch the next plane as soon as I get to the bottom of this. Calloway : Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals. Martins : You mind if I use that line in my next Western? Martins : Callahan! Calloway : Calloway, not Callahan. I'm English, not Irish. Martins : Have you ever seen any of your victims? Harry Lime : You know, I never feel comfortable on these sort of things. Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money? Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax - the only way you can save money nowadays. Martins : I guess nobody really knew Harry like he did... like I did. He was the best friend I ever had. Calloway : That sounds like a cheap novelette. Martins : Well, I write cheap novelettes. Movie Title: The Cruel Ones (1967) as Jonas: Jonas : Where do you hail from? The Beggar : From under a rock. That's where they say we all begin...crawling out from underneath something. Movie Title: Niagara (1953) as George Loomis: [First line, voiceover as we watch him at the base of the Falls] George Loomis : Why should the Falls drag me down here at 5 o'clock in the morning? To show me how big they are and how small I am? To remind me they can get along without any help? All right, so they've proved it. But why not? They've had ten thousand years to get independent. What's so wonderful about that? I suppose I could too, only it might take a little more time. George Loomis : Let me tell you something. You're young, you're in love. Well, I'll give you a warning. Don't let it get out of hand, like those falls out there. Up above... d'you ever see the river up above the falls? It's calm, and easy, and you throw in a log, it just floats around. Let it move a little further down and it gets going faster, hits some rocks, and... in a minute it's in the lower rapids, and... nothing in the world -- including God himself, I suppose -- can keep it from going over the edge. It just -- goes. Polly Cutler : Don't worry. I'm one of those logs that just hang around in the calm. |
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