“Superman” quotes
(1978)
Richard Donner
directed this movie
in 1978
Title Superman
Year 1978
Director Richard Donner
Genre Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
Year 1978
Director Richard Donner
Genre Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
Plot – The distant planet Krypton is about to be destroyed by a terrible explosion. Hoping to save his race, Yor El, one of the members of the Supreme Council of the planet, sends a rocket to Planet Earth with his new-born son: Superman. Mr and Mrs Kent, an elderly farming couple, adopt the alien, raise him as a human and keep his origins hidden. On the death of his adoptive father, Superman moves to New York and gets hired as a reporter at the Daily Planet.
All actors – Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Trevor Howard, Margot Kidder, Jack O'Halloran, Valerie Perrine, Maria Schell, Terence Stamp, Phyllis Thaxter, Susannah York, Jeff East, Marc McClure, Sarah Douglas, Harry Andrews, Vass Anderson, John Hollis, James Garbutt, Michael Gover, David Neal, William Russell, Penelope Lee, John Stuart, Alan Cullen, Lee Quigley, Aaron Smolinski, Diane Sherry, Jeff Atcheson, Brad Flock, David Petrou, Billy J. Mitchell, Robert Henderson, Larry Lamb, James Brockington, John Cassady, John F. Parker, Antony Scott, Ray Evans, Sue Shifrin, Miquel Brown, Vincent Marzello, Benjamin Feitelson, Lise Hilboldt, Leueen Willoughby, Jill Ingham, Pieter Stuyck, Rex Reed, Weston Gavin, Steve Kahan, Ray Hassett, Randy Jurgensen, Matt Russo, Colin Skeaping, Bo Rucker, Paul Avery, David Baxt, George Harris II, Michael Harrigan, John Cording, Raymond Thompson, Oz Clarke, Rex Everhart, Jayne Tottman, Frank Lazarus, Brian Protheroe, Lawrence Trimble, Robert Whelan, David Calder, Norwich Duff, Keith Alexander, Michael Ensign, Larry Hagman, Paul Tuerpe, Graham McPherson, David Yorston, Robert O'Neill, Robert MacLeod, John Ratzenberger, Alan Tilvern, Phil Brown, Bill Bailey, Burnell Tucker, Chief Tug Smith, Norman Warwick, Chuck Julian, Colin Etherington, Mark Wynter, Roy Stevens, Kirk Alyn, Bruce Boa, Robert Dahdah, David de Keyser, Richard Donner, Harry Fielder, Edward Finneran, Noel Neill, Pam Rose, Tony Selby
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“It's amazing that brain can generate enough power to keep those legs moving.”
“There's a strong streak of good in you, Superman. But then nobody's perfect... almost nobody.”
“This is Lex Luthor. Only one thing alive with less than four legs can hear this frequency, Superman, and that's you.”
“I never lie.”
“- Lois Lane: Any more at home like you?
- Clark Kent: Uh, not really, no.”“Why is it I can't get it on with the good guys?”
“- Clark Kent: Excuse me, Mr. White. I was wondering if, if, uh, perhaps you could arrange for half my salary to be sent to this address on a weekly basis.
- Lois Lane: Your bookie, right?
- Clark Kent: My what?
- Lois Lane: Don't tell me: he sends a check every week to his sweet, grey-haired old mother.
- Clark Kent: Actually, she's silver-haired.”“Tell me something, Lex, why do so many people have to die for the crime of the century?”
“Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive to both you and me? It's your weight and my I.Q.”
“You will travel far, my little Kal-El. But we will never leave you... even in the face of our death.”
“- Jor-El: So, my son. Speak.
- Young Clark Kent: Who am I?
- Jor-El: Your name is Kal-El. You are the only survivor of the planet Krypton. Even though you've been raised as a human, you are not one of them. You have great powers, only some of which you have as yet discovered.”“- Lois Lane: What color underwear am I wearing?
- Superman: Hmmm...
- Lois Lane: Oh, I'm sorry, I embarrassed you, didn't I?
- Superman: Oh, no, no, no, not at all, Miss Lane, it's just that this planter must be made of lead.
- Lois Lane: Uh, yes it is. So?
- Superman: Well, you see, I, uh, I sort of have a problem seeing through lead.”What a super man... "Superman"!
“In the decade of the 1930s, even the great city of Metropolis was not spared the ravages of the worldwide depression. In times of fear and confusion, the job of informing the public was the responsibility of the Daily Planet, a great metropolitan newspaper whose reputation for clarity and truth had become the symbol for hope in the city of...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Clark Kent: Really, Lois, supposing that man had shot you? Is it worth risking your life over ten dollars, two credit cards, a hairbrush, and a lipstick?
- Lois Lane: How did you know that?
- Clark Kent: Know what?
- Lois Lane: You just described the exact contents of my purse.
- Clark Kent: Hmm. Uh, wild guess.”“It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history.”
“We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.”
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