Clark Kent quotes from Smallville

Chloe Sullivan

Clark, how did you hear that?

Clark Kent

I guess I missed too many Linkin Park concerts.

Lana Lang

Clark, there's still something I don't understand. How did you get from the hotline to the storage unit in a split second?

Clark Kent

It took me more than a few seconds... maybe it had something to do with the weird time anomaly. You know, there's something that I don't understand either. Why did you call the hotline instead of the police?

Lana Lang

Because I knew you'd be there.

Jonathan Kent

How'd you know to find me out here?

Clark Kent

When I'm searching for answers, I turn to my dad. I guess it runs in the family.

Jonathan Kent

Your grandfather was the stubbornest man I ever knew. And believe me, Clark, I wasn't nearly the son you are. My mother used to say that he and I were like watching two sides of the same coin duking it out. And I see the way you and Jor-El fight and I wonder if maybe fathers and sons were the same on Krypton.

Clark Kent

Except he's not my father. You are.

Jonathan Kent

Yeah... I am your father who turns his back on you when you need him the most. I am your father who forces you to run away. My father never would've done that.

Dr. Virgil Swann

Fathers often want futures that their sons reject. That struggle is as old as the human race.

Clark Kent

Except I'm not human.

Dr. Virgil Swann

Humanity is not only about biology.

Clark Kent

You broke into the LuthorCorp plant the other night, didn't you? Something happened?

Chloe Sullivan

Wow. There may be some journalistic genes behind those baby blues after all.

Clark Kent

Chloe, for some reason, people are telling you things they don't want you to know, and it's not a joke.

Chloe Sullivan

No. But it is every reporter's dream.

Chloe Sullivan

My God, Clark, this is amazing! Can you imagine the kinds of stories I could break? I mean, I could crack the mystery that is Clark Kent! [pause] What do you keep hiding from me?

Clark Kent

I can't believe you just asked me that.

Chloe Sullivan

And you didn't answer. Everyone else would have. What are you so afraid of? That I'll get behind that armor and finally uncover your secret?

Chloe Sullivan

When you found me on the bridge, I was on my way here. I was gonna ask your parents all the questions you would never answer... look, I know "I'm sorry" has become a recurring motif in our relationship, but--

Clark Kent

No, Chloe, look, I appreciate your honesty, but you weren't yourself.

Chloe Sullivan

I really wish I could believe that. But there have been so many times when my curiosity has gotten the best of me. Maybe this is just who I am.

Clark Kent

No. You're going after the truth. Chloe, there's nothing wrong with that.

Chloe Sullivan

Unless it hurts the people you care most about. I'm just afraid that one day I'm gonna push too hard, and I'm not gonna get the chance to say I'm sorry.

Clark Kent

Today's not that day.

Martha

[Concerned] You've hardly said anything about what happened at Summerholt.

Clark

[Distracted] Don't worry Mom, my secret is still safe.

Martha

Well, let me know if you want to talk about it.

Clark

Lara.

Clark

That was my biological mother's real name. She was my earliest memory. She sounded so scared. Her only fear was that nobody would love me.

Martha

I can't imagine the feeling of sending my baby in a lifeboat across the stars.

Clark

Because of Jor-El, I always thought that my biological parents were monsters. But she wasn't.... I just can't believe I forgot about her.

Martha

[Comforting] You didn't, Clark; your first word was "Lara". Your father and I could never figure out what it meant, but now we know.

Clark

I wish she could have met you, to see what a great mom I have.

Martha

She knows, Clark. A mother's love never dies.

Lex

Lana told you about my nocturnal adventure, didn't she? I can see I spooked her. That usually sends her running to you.

Clark

Are you okay?

Lex

Well, I haven't lost my mind, Clark, if that's what you mean. I just indulged in a little harmless sleepwalking, that's all.

Clark

Lex, you were on a ledge yelling Julian's name. You could've killed yourself.

Lex

You know, when I found you asleep in the middle of Route 8 last year, I don't remember questioning your mental health.

Clark

I hadn't just spent seven weeks at Belle Reve.

Lex

According to my doctors I'm cured. But apparently, a clean bill of health isn't good enough for Clark Kent.

Lex

I told you to let it go, but you kept pursuing it. You even involved my father.

Clark

Yeah, well, believe me, Lex. He's the last person I'd ask for help, but I didn't have any other options.

Lex

He betrayed you, Clark. He stopped my sessions with Garner by offering you up as a lab rat. I've tried to keep my father away from you, but he's obsessed. If I'd got back those seven weeks, I could've finally stopped him.

Clark

Maybe, Lex. Or maybe you'd make it worse. You're always telling me how you don't want to turn into your father, and I truly believe that. But the more you two go at each other, the more like him you become. And the more people get hurt.

Lex

I will never become my father. I would never sacrifice you or anybody I cared about to bring him down.

Clark

Lex.... why does your father hate you so much?

Clark

Did you do this?

Lex

What possible reason would I have to ransack the office of an obscure teaching assistant?

Clark

Then tell me why you're here.

Lex

You first.

Clark

Jeremiah was gonna help me with a term paper.

Lex

Term paper. So your visit doesn't have anything to do with the fact that he went ballistic in the caves last night and absconded with a sacred Kawatche artifact.

Clark

I didn't know.

Lex

I'm surprised. I mean, you usually keep such a close eye on everything that happens in the caves... for those term papers you're always writing.

Clark

I know you want to believe it, but I'm not your savior. I mean, did you ever think that Jeremiah really is Naman? He has all the abilities foretold in the prophecy, and he's gonna try and kill Segeeth.

True. But he did not fall from the sky in a rain of fire. Jeremiah's desperate to be someone he's not. And you are desperate not be someone you are.

Clark

Professor, I may be confused about who I am, but one thing I'm not is a killer.

You'd be surprised what you're capable of when the time comes.

Clark

It also means the prophecy came true. The blade glowed and disintegrated when they touched it, which means either Lionel or Lex is my greatest enemy.

Martha

Did you see which one grabbed it first?

Clark

No. But I don't need a blade to tell me that Lionel Luthor is a bad person.

Martha

If you're going to believe this legend, you have to face the possibility that it could be Lex.

Clark

I'm not ready to do that.

Jonathan

Clark, the Kawatche think that you're a savior. Jor-El wants you to be a conqueror. Now, knife or not, you can't let other people tell you what to be.

Clark

Who do you think I'll become?

Jonathan

I don't know. You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story, is you.

Clark

You sound like Lex. He thinks I'm the reason Lana's leaving.

Pete

Well, I hate to agree with Uncle Fester, but I don't think Lana's going to Paris just to see the Mona Lisa.