Superman (1978 film) Quotes

Superman (1978 film) is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Superman stopped airing in 1970.

It features Pierre Spengler as producer, John Williams in charge of musical score, and Geoffrey Unsworth as head of cinematography.

Superman (1978 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Superman (1978 film) is 143 minutes long. Superman (1978 film) is distributed by Warner Bros., and Columbia Pictures-EMI Films-Warner.

The cast includes: Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, Terence Stamp as General Zod, Sarah Douglas as Ursa, Jackie Cooper as Perry White, Susannah York as Lara, Valerie Perrine as Miss Teschmacher, Ned Beatty as Otis, Glenn Ford as Jonathan Kent, Marc McClure as Jimmy Olsen, and Maria Schell as Vond-Ah.

Superman (1978 film) Quotes

Margot Kidder as Lois Lane

• (Margot Kidder) "What a super man -- "Superman"."

• (Margot Kidder) "What color underwear am I wearing?"
• (Superman) "Hmmm --"
• (Margot Kidder) "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."
• (Margot Kidder) "Uh, yes it is. So?"
• (Superman) "Well, you see, I, uh, I sort of have a problem seeing through lead."
• (Margot Kidder) "Oh, that's interesting."
• (Margot Kidder) "Problem seeing through lead. Hmmm. Uh, d-do you have a first name?"
• (Superman) "What do you mean, like, uh, Ralph or something?"
• (Margot Kidder) "No, no, I mean like --"
• (Superman) "Pink."
• (Margot Kidder) "Huh?"
• (Superman) "Pink."
• (Superman) "Um, sorry, Miss Lane, I didn't mean to embarrass you."

• (Clark Kent) "Lois, there's something I have to tell you. I'm really --"
• (Clark Kent) "I-I mean I was, at first, really nervous about tonight, uh -- but then I decided, darn it. I'm gonna show you the time of your life."
• (Margot Kidder) "That's Clark, nice."

• (Margot Kidder) "Who -- are you?"
• (Superman) "A friend."
• (Superman) "Bye."

• (Margot Kidder) "Can you read my mind? Do you know what it is that you do to me? I don't know who you are. Just a friend from another star. Here I am, like a kid out of school. Holding hands with a god. I'm a fool. Will you look at me? Quivering. Like a little girl, shivering. You can see right through me. Can you read my mind? Can you picture the things I'm thinking of? Wondering why you are -- all the wonderful things you are. You can fly. You belong in the sky. You and I -- could belong to each other. If you need a friend -- I'm the one to fly to. If you need to be loved -- here I am. Read my mind."

• (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?"
• (Margot Kidder) "How did you know that?"
• (Clark Kent) "Know what?"
• (Margot Kidder) "You just described the exact contents of my purse."
• (Clark Kent) "Hmm. Uh, wild guess."

• (Margot Kidder) "How big are you -- um -- how tall are you?"

• (Margot Kidder) "Any more at home like you?"
• (Clark Kent) "Uh, not really, no."

• (Margot Kidder) "As you know, my newspaper, the Daily Planet, is very interested in that dam, Chief, but what I don't understand is why you would sell out to a faceless person that you've never met. I mean, you don't even know his name."
• (Margot Kidder) "Oh, yeah."
• (Indian Chief) "At the stupid high price that he offered for this worthless piece of desert, I hope it's Custer."
• (Margot Kidder) "Perfect. That's just what I need. Thank you."

• (Margot Kidder) "Help me. HELP."

• (Margot Kidder) "Um, um, would you like a glass of wine?"
• (Superman) "Uh, no, no thanks. I never drink when I fly."

• (Margot Kidder) "Oh, hi Rex."
• (Rex Reed) "Hey Lois."
• (Margot Kidder) "See anything good today?"
• (Rex Reed) "Not 'til you came along."
• (Margot Kidder) "Oh, Rex, this is, uh --"
• (Clark Kent) "Clark Kent."
• (Rex Reed) "Yeah, see you around."

Valerie Perrine as Miss Teschmacher

• (Valerie Perrine) "Sick. You're really sick."
• (Gene Hackman) "Sick, Miss Teschmacher? Sick, when I'm mere days from executing the crime of the century? No, no, no, no. Step away from that, please. How do you choose to congratulate the greatest criminal mind of our time? Huh? Huh? You tell me than I'm brilliant? Oh, no, no, that would be too obvious, I grant you. Charismatic. Fiendishly gifted, uh --"
• (Valerie Perrine) "Try "twisted.""

• (Valerie Perrine) "Lex, my mother lives in Hackensack."
• (Gene Hackman) "You know what they say about omelets -- We'll give her a spot on the map."

• (Valerie Perrine) "I wonder what they're wearing in Addis Ababa?"

• (Valerie Perrine) "Why is it I can't get it on with the good guys?"

Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor

• (Gene Hackman) ""You must've been a beautiful baby, you must've been a wonderful child; when you were only startin' to go to kindergarten, you must've drove the little boys wild; And when it came to winning blue ribbons, you must've shown the other kids how; I can see the judge's eyes, when he handed you the prize, you must've made the cutest bow; Yeah, you must've been a beautiful baby -- 'Cause, baby, look at you now.""
• (Valerie Perrine) "You can't do this to me --. Why, Lex? WHY?"
• (Gene Hackman) "Because I love you, Miss Teschmacher."
• (Superman) "By the way, Miss Teschmacher, your mother sends her love."

• (Gene Hackman) "Everything west of this line is the richest, most expensive real estate in the world: San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Everything on THIS side of the line is just hundreds and hundreds of miles of worthless desert land, which just so happens to be owned by --"
• (Ned Beatty) "Uh -- Lex Luthor Incorporated."
• (Gene Hackman) "Now, call me foolish, call me irresponsible, but it occurs to me that a 500 megaton bomb planted at just the proper point would --"
• (Superman) "Would destroy most of California. Millions of innocent people would be killed. The west coast as we know it would --"
• (Gene Hackman) "Fall into the sea."
• (Gene Hackman) "Bye-bye, California. Hello, new west coast. My west coast."
• (Gene Hackman) "Costa Del Lex. Luthorville. Lexington. Marina Del Lex. Otisburg. Lex Springs -- Otisburg?"
• (Ned Beatty) "Miss Teschmacher's got her own place."
• (Gene Hackman) "Otisburg ?"
• (Ned Beatty) "It's an itty bitty town."
• (Gene Hackman) "OTISBURG?"
• (Ned Beatty) "Okay, I'll wipe it off. Just a little town, that's all."

• (Gene Hackman) "Miss Teschmacher. Turn it off."
• (Valerie Perrine) "Lex, what's the story on this guy? Do you think it's the genuine article?"
• (Gene Hackman) "If he is, he's not from this world."
• (Valerie Perrine) "Why?"
• (Gene Hackman) "Because, if any human being were going to perpetrate such a fantastic hoax, it would have been me. Otis. My robe."
• (Ned Beatty) "Right away, Mr. Luthor."
• (Gene Hackman) "It all fits somehow, his coming here to Metropolis. And at this particular time. There's a kind of cruel justice about it. I mean, to commit the crime of the century, a man naturally wants to face the challenge of the century."
• (Ned Beatty) "Listen, Mr. Luthor, maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?"
• (Gene Hackman) "Passing through? Not on your life. Which I would gladly sacrifice, by the way, for the opportunity of destroying everything that he represents. And, Otis, by the way, next time put my robe on after I'm out of the pool."
• (Ned Beatty) "Oooohhhh."

• (Gene Hackman) "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."

• (Gene Hackman) "There's a strong streak of good in you, Superman. But then nobody's perfect -- almost nobody."

• (Gene Hackman) "You were great in your day, Superman. But it just stands to reason, when it came time to cash in your chips, this old -- diseased -- maniac would be your banker."

• (Gene Hackman) "Miss Teschmacher."

• (Gene Hackman) "Otis, is that the newspaper I asked you to get me?"
• (Ned Beatty) "Yeah."
• (Gene Hackman) "Why am I not reading it?"
• (Ned Beatty) "'Cause I haven't given it to you yet?"
• (Gene Hackman) "Right --"

• (Gene Hackman) "Miss Teschmacher, when I was six years old my father said to me --"
• (Valerie Perrine) ""Get out.""
• (Gene Hackman) "Before that. He said, "Son, stocks may rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn good, but they will always need land and they will pay through the nose to get it. Remember," my father said --"
• (Ned Beatty) "" -- land.""
• (Gene Hackman) "Right. It's a pity he couldn't see from such humble beginnings how I've created this empire."
• (Valerie Perrine) "An empire? This?"
• (Gene Hackman) "Miss Teschmacher, how many girls do you know who have a Park Avenue address like this one?"
• (Valerie Perrine) "A Park Avenue address? Two hundred feet below?"
• (Gene Hackman) "Do you realize what people are shelling out up there, for a few miserable rooms off a common elevator?"
• (Ned Beatty) "What more could anyone ask?"

• (Gene Hackman) "Otis, take the gentleman's cape."
• (Ned Beatty) "I don't think he wants me to, Mr. Luthor."

• (Superman) "You don't even care where that other missile is headed, do you?"
• (Gene Hackman) "Of course I do. I know exactly where it's headed. Hackensack, New Jersey."

• (Gene Hackman) "Don't touch that."
• (Gene Hackman) "Ha ha, I told you. That's kryptonite, Superman. A little piece of the rock you were born on. I've spared no expense to make you feel right at home."

• (Gene Hackman) "We all have our little faults. Mine's in California."

• (Gene Hackman) "Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe."

• (Gene Hackman) "Otis. The third one was to be 11, and the fourth one, seven."
• (Ned Beatty) "Oh. Oh, gee. Aw, gee. Gee, Mr. Luthor. Oh, I see. I guess my arm wasn't long enough, see?"
• (Gene Hackman) "Otis, would you like to see a long arm? Otis, would you like to see a very, very long arm?"
• (Ned Beatty) "Oh, no, Mr. Luthor."

• (Gene Hackman) "The San Andreas Fault. Maybe you've heard of it?"
• (Superman) "Yes, it's the joining together of two land masses. The fault line is unstable and shifting, which is why you get earthquakes in California from time to time."
• (Gene Hackman) "Wonderful. Couldn't have said it better myself."

• (Gene Hackman) "This is Lex Luthor. Only one thing alive with less than four legs can hear this frequency, Superman, and that's you."

• (Gene Hackman) "n -- n -- n --"
• (Ned Beatty) "'M'. You want 'M' Mr. Luthor?"
• (Ned Beatty) "So, there you go, 'M'."
• (Gene Hackman) "'M' as in moron Otis? No, no, no, it's 'N'. 'N' as in neanderthal, nincompoop, nitwit and 'L' as in ladder."

• (Gene Hackman) "Miss Teschmacher, how many girls do you know who have a Park Avenue address like this one?"
• (Valerie Perrine) "Park Avenue address? Two hundred feet below ?"

• (Gene Hackman) "You were followed again."
• (Gene Hackman) "-- in spite of those catlike reflexes."

• (Gene Hackman) "It's amazing that brain can generate enough power to keep those legs moving."

Terence Stamp as General Zod

• (Jor-El) "This is no fantasy, no careless product of wild imagination. No, my good friends. These indictments I have brought you today, specific charges listed herein against the individuals; their acts of treason, their ultimate aim of sedition -- These are matters of undeniable fact. I ask you now to pronounce judgement on those accused --"
• (Jor-El) "On this -- this mindless aberration, whose only means of expression are wanton violence and destruction."
• (Jor-El) "On the woman Ursa, whose perversions and unreasoning hatred of all mankind have threatened even the children of the planet Krypton."
• (Jor-El) "Finally, General Zod; once trusted by this council, charged with maintaining the defense of the planet Krypton itself. Chief architect of this intended revolution, and author of this insidious plot to establish a new order amongst us; with himself as absolute ruler."
• (Jor-El) "You have heard the evidence. The decision of the council will now be made."
• (Terence Stamp) "The vote must be unanimous, Jor-El. It has therefore now become your decision. You alone will condemn us, if you wish, and you alone will be held responsible by me."
• (Terence Stamp) "Join us."
• (Terence Stamp) "You have been known to disagree with the council before. Yours could become an important voice in the new order, second only to my own. I offer you a chance for greatness, Jor-El. Take it. Join us."
• (Jor-El) "I've seen the likes of your new order, too many times before. And I know only too much about what you call "greatness"."
• (Terence Stamp) "You will bow down before me, Jor-El. I swear it. No matter if it takes an eternity, YOU WILL BOW DOWN BEFORE ME. BOTH YOU AND, ONE DAY, YOUR HEIRS."
• (Sarah Douglas) "Forgive me --."
• (Terence Stamp) "I shall return --."

Jackie Cooper as Perry White

• (Jackie Cooper) "Now listen to me, I tell you boys and girls; whichever one of you gets it out -- is going to wind up with the single most important interview since -- God talked to Moses."

• (Jackie Cooper) "Olsen. Why am I paying you forty dollars a week when I should have you arrested for loitering? Go get Mr -- er --"
• (Clark Kent) "Kent."
• (Jackie Cooper) "-- Kent here a towel."
• (Marc McClure) "Right, Chief."
• (Jackie Cooper) "And make mine black and no sugar."
• (Marc McClure) "Right, Chief."
• (Jackie Cooper) "And don't call me 'sugar'."

• (Jackie Cooper) "Lois, Clark Kent may seem like just a mild-mannered reporter, but listen, not only does he know how to treat his editor-in-chief with the proper respect, not only does he have a snappy, punchy prose style, but he is, in my forty years in this business, the fastest typist I've ever seen."

Maria Schell as Vond-Ah

• (First Elder) "An unpleasant duty has been masterly performed, Jor-El. They have received the fate they deserve: isolation in the Phantom Zone, an eternal living death."
• (Jor-El) "A chance for survival, nonetheless -- as opposed to ourselves, if we continue to ignore these facts. It's suicide. No, it's worse. It's GENOCIDE."
• (First Elder) "Be warned, Jor-El. The Council has already evaluated this outlandish theory of yours."
• (Jor-El) "My friends, you know me to be neither rash nor impulsive. I'm not given to wild, unsupported statements. And I tell you that we must evacuate this planet immediately."
• (First Elder) "Jor-El, you are one of Krypton's greatest scientists."
• (2nd Elder) "Yes, but so is Vond-Ah."
• (Maria Schell) "It isn't that we question your data. The facts you speak of are undeniable. It's only your conclusions which we find unsupportable."
• (Jor-El) "This planet, and its red sun with it, will destabilize and burst within 30 days -- very likely, within seven."
• (Maria Schell) "I tell you, Krypton is merely shifting its orbit."
• (2nd Elder) "Jor-El, be REASONABLE."
• (Jor-El) "My dear friend, I've never been otherwise. This madness is yours."

Glenn Ford as Jonathan Kent

• (Lana Lang) "Hey, there's Clark. Clark?"
• (Brad) "How'd you get here so fast?"
• (Young Clark Kent) "I ran."
• (Brad) ""Ran," huh? Told ya he's an oddball. Let's get outta here."
• (Glenn Ford) "Been showing off a bit, haven't you, son?"
• (Young Clark Kent) "Um -- I didn't mean to show off, Pop. It's just that, guys like that Brad, I just want to tear him apart."
• (Glenn Ford) "Yeah, I know, I know."
• (Young Clark Kent) "And I know I shouldn't --"
• (Glenn Ford) "Yeah, I know, you can do all these amazing things and sometimes you feel like you will just go bust unless you can tell people about them."
• (Young Clark Kent) "Yeah. I mean every time I kick the football I can make a touchdown. Every time. I mean, is it showing off if somebody's doing the things he's capable of doing? Is a bird showing off when it flies?"
• (Glenn Ford) "No, no. Now, you listen to me. When you first came to us, we thought people would come and take you away because, when they found out, you know, the things you could do -- and that worried us a lot. But then a man gets older, and he starts thinking differently and things get very clear. And one thing I do know, son, and that is you are here for a reason. I don't know whose reason, or whatever the reason is -- Maybe it's because -- uh -- I don't know. But I do know one thing. It's not to score touchdowns. Huh?"
• (Young Clark Kent) "Thanks, Dad."

Susannah York as Lara

• (Susannah York) "Have you finished?"
• (Jor-El) "Nearly. It's the only answer, Lara. If he remains here with us -- he will die as surely as we will."
• (Susannah York) "But why Earth, Jor-El? They're primitives, thousands of years behind us."
• (Jor-El) "He will need that advantage to survive. Their atmosphere will -- sustain him."
• (Susannah York) "He will defy their gravity."
• (Jor-El) "He will look like one of them."
• (Susannah York) "He won't be one of them."
• (Jor-El) "No. His dense molecular structure will make him strong."
• (Susannah York) "He'll be odd. Different."
• (Jor-El) "He'll be fast. Virtually invulnerable."
• (Susannah York) "Isolated. Alone."
• (Jor-El) "He will not be alone."
• (Jor-El) "He will never be alone."

Marc McClure as Jimmy Olsen

• (Marc McClure) "What are you writing, Miss Lane?"
• (Margot Kidder) "An ode to spring. How do you spell massacre?"

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