Superman Returns Quotes
Mr. Mxyzptlk: [speaking as an ambient voice] Hey, blueboy, this place of yours is a dump! [materializes out of a billboard]
Mr. Mxyzptlk: Bet you wish you were still on Krypton, don't ya?
Superman: You?
Mr. Mxyzptlk: [disappears, materializing in the flesh above Superman] Up here, pal! The one and only Mr. Mxyzptlk! Straight from the fifth dimension!
Superman: What mayhem are you up to now, Mxyzptlk?
Mr. Mxyzptlk: Mayem? Me? I'm hurt! Speaking of which, while you were checking out the home planet, the old me misplaced some of your goodies!
Superman: You mean stole them.
Mr. Mxyzptlk: To-MAY-toes... To-MAH-toes... But you can have them back, if you pass just a few little challenges.
Superman: I'm not playing any of your games! [flies off]
Mr. Mxyzptlk: [teleports in front of Superman] Well, you could always try tricking me into saying my name backwards and sending me back to my home dimension.
Superman: Alright, where are these so-called 'challenges'?
Mr. Mxyzptlk: Telling you would be too easy, but if you fly high enough, something tells me, you'll find everything your searching for. So have fun! Toodles... for now! [disappears]
Mr. Mxyzptlk: Bet you wish you were still on Krypton, don't ya?
Superman: You?
Mr. Mxyzptlk: [disappears, materializing in the flesh above Superman] Up here, pal! The one and only Mr. Mxyzptlk! Straight from the fifth dimension!
Superman: What mayhem are you up to now, Mxyzptlk?
Mr. Mxyzptlk: Mayem? Me? I'm hurt! Speaking of which, while you were checking out the home planet, the old me misplaced some of your goodies!
Superman: You mean stole them.
Mr. Mxyzptlk: To-MAY-toes... To-MAH-toes... But you can have them back, if you pass just a few little challenges.
Superman: I'm not playing any of your games! [flies off]
Mr. Mxyzptlk: [teleports in front of Superman] Well, you could always try tricking me into saying my name backwards and sending me back to my home dimension.
Superman: Alright, where are these so-called 'challenges'?
Mr. Mxyzptlk: Telling you would be too easy, but if you fly high enough, something tells me, you'll find everything your searching for. So have fun! Toodles... for now! [disappears]
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Black Adam: [to a cowering Billy] Amusing. The Wizard finally gave you your powers... but neglected to show you how they worked!
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Kitty Kowalski: [while in Superman's Fortress of Solitude] You act like you've been here before.
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[first lines]
Jor-El: You will travel far my little Kal-El. But we will never leave you. Even in the face of our deaths. You will make my strength your own. You will see my life through your eyes as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father, the - The son.
Jor-El: You will travel far my little Kal-El. But we will never leave you. Even in the face of our deaths. You will make my strength your own. You will see my life through your eyes as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father, the - The son.
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[last lines]
Jason White: [Yells and waves from his window] GOOD NIGHT!
Lois Lane: [Lois is standing in the front yard thinking about Superman, she is then startled when she hears Jason, she sees Jason waving out to the sky, she then looks at the sky and sees Superman floating right above her] I... Will we see you... around?
Superman: I'm always around. Good night, Lois. [Flies off]
Jason White: [Yells and waves from his window] GOOD NIGHT!
Lois Lane: [Lois is standing in the front yard thinking about Superman, she is then startled when she hears Jason, she sees Jason waving out to the sky, she then looks at the sky and sees Superman floating right above her] I... Will we see you... around?
Superman: I'm always around. Good night, Lois. [Flies off]
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[leans in to kiss Superman, but pulls back at the last moment]
Lois Lane: Richard's a good man... and you've been gone a long time.
Lois Lane: Richard's a good man... and you've been gone a long time.
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[Lex notices Jason staring at the Kryptonite in fear]
Lex Luthor: Who is that boy's father?
Lois Lane: Richard. [Grant's voice comes over the intercom]
Grant: Mr. Luthor, we're approaching the coordinates.
Lex Luthor: [to Lois, ignoring Grant] Are you sure?
Grant: [misunderstanding] Yes sir.
Lex Luthor: Who is that boy's father?
Lois Lane: Richard. [Grant's voice comes over the intercom]
Grant: Mr. Luthor, we're approaching the coordinates.
Lex Luthor: [to Lois, ignoring Grant] Are you sure?
Grant: [misunderstanding] Yes sir.
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[Newspaper headline reads: "SUPERMAN IS DEAD"]
Richard White: It's a little morbid, Perry.
Perry White: Always be prepared.
Richard White: It's a little morbid, Perry.
Perry White: Always be prepared.
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Jor-El: [Superman is flashing back to things his father told him] The human heart is still subject to monstrous deceits.
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Jor-El: [Superman is remembering Jor-El's last message to him from the first film] Live as one of them, Kal-El, to discover where your strength and your power are needed. Always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... my only son.
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Jor-El: They could be great people Kal-El if they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way, this reason above all is why I send them you, my only son.
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Jor-El: You will travel far, my little Kal-El, but we will never leave you-even in the face of our deaths. You will make my strength your own. You will see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father. And the father, the son.
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Kitty Kowalski: [about Kryptonian technology] Sounds like a lot of hocus-pocus to me.
Lex Luthor: Well, naturally. To the primitive mind, any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic. [Arthur C. Clarke's "Third Law" from "Profiles of the Future," 1973]
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Kitty Kowalski: [Looking at a dog chewing on bones surrounded by dog fur] Weren't there two of those?
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Kitty Kowalski: [Stomps into a room and slaps Lex across the face] I was going to pretend the brakes were out. Pretend! Like we talked about! [Screaming]
Kitty Kowalski: You didn't actually have to cut them!
Lex Luthor: Well of course I did. A man can always tell when a woman is pretending... especially Superman.
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Kitty Kowalski: [while in Superman's Fortress of Solitude] You act like you've been here before.
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Kitty Kowalski: Lex?
Lex Luthor: [lighting a cigar] Uh-huh?
Kitty Kowalski: Are billions of people really going to die? [beat; Luthor takes a puff from the cigar]
Lex Luthor: [indifferently] Yes.
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Kitty Kowalski: My heart, my palpitations, they're gone, what did you do?
Superman: I didn't do anything, Ma'am.
Kitty Kowalski: [breathlessly] Call me Catharine.
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Kitty Kowalski: Wow, that's really something Lex.
Lex Luthor: Wait for it.
Kitty Kowalski: [long pause] Wow, that's really something Lex. It's freakin' Gone with the Wind.
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Kitty Kowalski: Your friends give me the creeps.
Lex Luthor: Prison is a creepy place, Kitty, and one needs to make creepy friends in order to survive. On the inside, even my talents were worth less than a carton of cigarettes and a sharp piece of metal in your pocket.
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Lex Luthor: [angrily throws coconut into the ocean]
Kitty Kowalski: Lex! We only have six of those!
Lex Luthor: Six? [laughs maniacally]
Lex Luthor: [screaming] I would trade three hundred THOUSAND coconuts and every ounce of your blood for a QUART OF GASOLINE!
Kitty Kowalski: But what will we have to eat?
Lex Luthor: [eyes the dog in Kitty's arms maliciously]
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Lex Luthor: [pulls off wig and tosses it to little girl] You can keep that. [referring to his newly-inherited mansion]
Lex Luthor: The rest is mine.
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Lex Luthor: [spots the van riddled with bullet-holes] Run into trouble?
Grant: You should see the other guy.
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Lex Luthor: [while kicking Superman] Didn't your dad ever teach you to *walk* before you *leap*?
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Lex Luthor: But we're not really strangers, are we? This is kind of a little reunion, isn't it? Heck, I'm a fan. I love your writing... and your dress.
Lois Lane: I love your boat. How'd you get it? Swindle some old widow out of her money?
Lex Luthor: [gushes and chuckles mockingly] That's funny. Hey, didn't you win the Pulitzer Prize for my favorite article of all time, 'Why the World DOESN'T Need Superman'?
Lois Lane: Didn't you have a few more years to go on that DOUBLE life sentence?
Lex Luthor: [pause as he glares at her] Yes, well, we can thank the Man of Steel for that. I mean, he's really good at swooping in and catching the bad guys, but he's not so hot at the little things, like Miranda rights, due process, [under his breath]
Lex Luthor: making your court date...
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