Ben Hubbard So, you flew in last week?
Clark Kent
Brandon Routh · 19 quotes
Lois Lane
Kate Bosworth · 18 quotes
Lex Luthor
Kevin Spacey · 14 quotes
Kitty Kowalski
Parker Posey · 10 quotes
Perry White
Frank Langella · 10 quotes
Jimmy Olsen
Sam Huntington · 7 quotes
Richard White
James Marsden · 5 quotes
Jor-El
Marlon Brando · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Lex Luthor & Kitty Kowalski (8), Clark Kent & Lois Lane (7), Clark Kent & Jimmy Olsen (5)
Superman Returns quotes
Page 1 of 4 Ben Hubbard Oh, he's cute!
[Seeing one of the Vanderworth dogs chewing on a bloody bone]
Weren't there two of those?
Martha Kent : Even if you are the last one, you're not alone.
Martha Kent
Even you can't stop the world from spinning.
Martha Kent
Five years... if your father was alive he would have never let you go.
Jason Kent
(Lois is sneaking on board Lex Luthor's ship)
Mommy, are we trespassing?
No... yes... shhh.
Bartender Must be tough coming back.
Coming back?
Bartender To work.
Well, you know, things change. Well, of course things change. But somethings that you thought wouldn't change could change. Take Lois. A woman like her, I never thought she'd settle down.
If you ask me, 'cause she'd never tell you this, but if you ask me? She's still in love with you-know-who.
Jason White
Hi.
Hello.
Jason White
Who are you.
Oh, I'm Clark Kent. I'm an old friend of your mom's, from before you were born.
Jason White
Really? She never mentioned you.
Really? Never?
Jason White
Nope.
Look who's back?
Kent?
Hey. Chief! Thank you for giving me my job back.
Don't thank me. Thank Norm Palmer for dying!
It was his time.
Why don't you guys track down Lex Luthor? I mean, no one's seen him since his fifth appeal and he has more bad history with Superman than anyone, maybe he's got something to say?
Luthor is yesterday's news.
Jimmy, how did Lex Luthor get out of prison?
Well, the appeals court called Superman as a witness and he wasn't around. How much do you think that pisses off Superman?
A lot.
[leans over an unsuspecting Clark who is holding a family photo of Lois Lane, her fiancé Richard White and Lois' son Jason, ]
Ha! Yeah! He looks just like his mom. Already takes after her too, especially when it comes to getting into trouble.
Mother?
Oh yeah, well I guess you've been gone. Fearless reporter Lois Lane is a mommy.
[Clark cracks the glass of the photo frame with his thumb] [taking the photo from Clark]
I'll just take that...
Sorry.
No, it's okay, she's got tons.
Wait, she's married?
Yes. No! Not really, It's more like a prolonged engagement. But don't ask Miss Lane when they're tying the knot 'cause she hates that question...
My son. You do not remember me. I am Jor-El. I am your father. By now I will have been dead for many thousands of your years.
He thinks I'm his son?
Embedded in the crystals before you is the total accumulation of all literature and scientific fact of dozens of other worlds spanning the twenty-eight known galaxies.
Can he see us?
No, he's dead.
There are many questions to be asked. Here, in this Fortress of Solitude, we will try to find the answers together. So, my son...Kal-El...speak.
Tell me everything. Starting with crystals.
Lex, your friends give me the creeps.
Prison is a creepy place, Kitty. One needs to make creepy friends in order to survive. Even a man with my vast talents is worth less inside than a carton of cigarettes and a sharp piece of metal in your pocket. [walks over to his bookshelves] Do you know the story of Prometheus? No, of course, you don't. Prometheus was the god who stole the power of fire from the other gods and gave control of it to mortals, in essence, he gave us technology, he gave us power.
So, we're stealing fire? In the Arctic?
Actually, sort of. You see whoever controls technology controls the world. The Roman empire ruled the world because they built roads. The British Empire ruled the world because they built ships. America; the atom bomb. And so on and so forth. I just want what Prometheus wanted.
Sounds great, Lex. But you're not a god.
Gods are selfish beings who fly around in little red capes and don't share their powers with mankind. No, I don't want to be a god, I just want to bring fire to the people. And I want my cut.
Lex?
Mmm-hmm?
Are billions of people really going to die?