Christopher Reeve movie quotes

View Quote [[After losing his superpowers, Clark gets beaten by rude diner patron "Rocky"]
Clark Kent: I think... think maybe we oughta hire a bodyguard from now on.
Lois Lane: I don't want a bodyguard. I want the man I fell in love with.
Clark Kent: I know that, Lois. I wish he were here.

View Quote General Zod: Son of Jor-El. We were beginning to think you were a coward.
Clark Kent: I'm not a coward, Zod.
General Zod: It is extremely likely you are merely a fool. Like father, like son.

View Quote Perry White: Kent, I need a story to run with the page three sidebar. Get me everything you can on this terrorist group.
Clark Kent: Right! [stops] Uh, sorry. T... terrorists?
Perry White: Get your head out of the closet, Kent! Where've you been for the past twelve hours?
Clark Kent: Home.
Perry White: Well, don't you watch television?
Clark Kent: Well actually I don't enjoy television, Mister White, there's too much violence. I was just reading Dickens.
Jimmy Olsen: (races in) Mr. Kent! A gang of terrorists seized the Eiffel Tower! In Paris!
Perry White: He knows where the Eiffel Tower is, Olsen! You do, don't you Kent?
Clark Kent: Yes, sir. Has anybody been hurt?
Jimmy Olsen: Well, so far the hostages are unharmed.
Clark Kent: The hostages?
Jimmy Olsen: Yeah! Tourists! About twenty of them!
Perry White: Yeah, but that's just petty-ante stuff. These guys claim that if the French government doesn't meet their demands, they've got a hydrogen bomb ready to level Paris.
Clark Kent: (genuinely surprised) Well, geez Mr. White. That's t... terrible!
Perry White: That's why they call them "terrorists", Kent.

View Quote [A cat burglar is climbing up the side of a building. He looks up and sees Superman standing there] Hi there. Something wrong with the elevator?

View Quote [lands holding a cat burglar] Officer! Uh, good evening, Officer Mooney. Well, they say confession's good for the soul. [takes a handful of stolen jewelry out of the burglar's bag] I'd listen to this man. Take him away.

View Quote [After getting "clubbed" on the head by a crowbar by a thief; the crowbar shivers uncontrollably in the thief's hands] Bad vibrations?

View Quote I have a question for you, sir. Is time travel possible?

View Quote [reading about Elise] One of the most revered actresses of the American stage, for many years, she was the theater's greatest box-office draw. Under the guidance of her manager William Fawcett Robinson, Elise McKenna was the first American actress to create a mystique in the public's eye. Never seen in public in her later years. Apparently without an offstage life, the absolute quintessence of seclusion.

View Quote Elise McKenna: [seeing Richard for the first time] Is it you? Is it?
Richard Collier: Yes. Are you all right?
Elise McKenna: Yes, yes, I'm quite all right.
Richard Collier: I'm sorry if I startled you.
Elise McKenna: No, you didn't startle me.
Richard Collier: I think I did.
William Fawcett Robinson: [to Elise] I'll take you into dinner now.
Richard Collier: May I speak to you please?
[Elise leaves the lake]

View Quote Perry White: You're late, Kent.
Clark Kent: I'm sorry, Mr. White. It won't happen again.
Perry White: Ha!

View Quote Lex Luthor: Is the world gonna be vaporized?
Superman: No. It's the same as it's always been, Luthor. On the brink. With good fighting evil. See you in twenty.

View Quote Superman: Madam Chairman, I don't represent any one particular country, but I'd like to address the delegates.
U.N. Chairwoman: Well, in that case, you will need a sponsor. [all delegates raise their hands] I believe that will do. Please.

View Quote Well, I hope you don't expect me to save you, 'cause I don't do that anymore.

View Quote [after blowing acid on Clark Kent] What's 'a matter, Kent? Too warm for ya'? Come on chicken! You've been on my nerves for a long time!

View Quote [to disgusted onlookers at a bar] What are ya' looking at?! Huh?!