Two Different People

from Citizen Kane

by Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz

Kane:  The trouble is, Mr. Thatcher, you don't realize you're talking to two people.  As Charles Foster Kane, who has eighty-two thousand, six hundred and thirty-one shares of Metropolitan Transfer - you see, I do have a rough idea of my holdings - I sympathize with you.  Charles Foster Kane is a dangerous scoundrel, his paper should be run out of town and a committee should be formed to boycott him.  You may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of one thousand dollars. 

On the other hand -- I am the publisher of the Enquirer.  As such, it is my duty - I'll let you in on a little secret, it is also my pleasure -- to see to it that the decent, hard-working people of this city are not robbed blind by a group of money-mad pirates because, God help them, they have no one to look after their interests! 

I'll let you in on another little secret, Mr. Thatcher.  I think I'm the man to do it.  You see, I have money and property. If I don't defend the interests of the underprivileged, somebody else will - maybe somebody without any money or any property and that would be too bad. 

But you're right about one thing.  We did lose a million dollars last year.  We expect to lose a million next year, too.  You know, Mr. Thatcher - at the rate of a million a year - we'll have to close this place... in about sixty or seventy years.