Vera Webster: Don't call me "man." Perry White: I don't understand you Olsen. A boring banquet and you bring me three thousand boring pictures. Yet Superman saves a man from drowning on 3rd Avenue this morning while you stand there watching the whole thing and you don't even bring me one picture. Jimmy Olsen: Chief, I didn't have my camera with me. Perry White: A photographer eats with his camera. A photographer sleeps with his camera. Lois Lane: I'm glad I'm a writer. Ross Webster: I can't have anyone with me... who isn't with me. Gus Gorman: I don't want to go to jail because there are robbers and rapers and rapers who rape robbers. Ross Webster: I ask you to kill Superman, and you can't do that one, simple thing. Ross Webster: You know a wise man once said, I think it was Attila the Hun, "It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
[Superman has just stopped a chemical fire] Fire Chief: I tell you that man is a miracle. Ross Webster: Never underestimate the power of computers. Evil Superman: Well I hope you don't expect me to save you, 'cause I don't do that anymore. Lorelei: Don't worry about me. I'm long past savin'. Evil Superman: You always wanted to fly Kent. Now's your chance. Ross Webster: What will it do? Gus Gorman: Anything I tell it. Ross Webster: What will it do for me? Gus Gorman: For you, it will do anything you tell me to tell it to do for you. White Coated Scientist: Hey. Here's that compound you ordered. Can't imagine what you want with it, but you've got it. Gus Gorman: What the hell am I afraid for? I'm from earth. Perry White: I don't have to tell you, it isn't easy for me to lose one of my best reporters. Clark Kent: Oh, that's okay. Perry White: But you deserve the vacation, Lois. Lois Lane: Thank you. Jimmy Olsen: Clark, I want you to keep these people distracted so they don't know what I'm doing. Clark Kent: What are you doing? Jimmy Olsen: What am I doing? Remember what the chief said? A photographer always goes after a story. Clark Kent: That could be dangerous, Jimmy. Jimmy Olsen: Danger? Goes with the territory, Mister Kent. Ross Webster: I've got to get rid of him. Vera Webster: How? Shoot him? You know about him and bullits. Ross Webster: [to Gus Gorman] You're going to go down in history as the man who killed Superman! Gus Gorman: Superman's bad!
[first lines] Unemployment Clerk: Next. Name. Gus Gorman: Gus Gorman.
[last lines] Pisa Vendor: Giorgio, per favore. Que grazie.