Clark Kent quotes from Smallville

Clark

Let's look for anything my dad might be warning me about.

Chloe

Okay, it might take a minute. I can't exactly search for a file called "My Evil Scheme".

Lex

One more thing, Clark. Lana called me. I don't want to hear you rifling through her stuff like a crazy roommate again. If you want something from me, don't go running to Lana to find it. You really crossed the line.

Clark

All those years we were friends, were you just waiting for me to step aside, so you could swoop in and make your move?

Lex

I don't know, Clark. All those years you told Lana you loved her, were you just waiting to walk away and break her heart? Look, there's a natural tendency to blame the person who's replaced you. I get that. But I didn't take Lana from you. You lost her all by yourself.

Lois

I thought you would be outside Lana's dorm with your binoculars by now.

Clark

I appreciate your concern, but Lana and I are none of your business.

Lois

Please, Smallville, I've had three exes put under military surveillance. I'm hardly qualified to deal out post-relationship tact. But...it's for some tough love. Lana's going to move on.

Clark

She already has -- Lex.

Lois

And it sucks, but you gotta trust your gut that you did this for a reason. For whatever reasons guys have for dumping hot, smart, fun girls these days. Look, give her some space, Clark. Your whole night-stalker routine? That's gonna any good feelings that Lana has for you.

Clark

If there are any.

Lois

Look, sometimes you gotta tuck your feelings away until it's the right time. Like stuffing dollars into a piggy bank for a bike you can't quite afford.

Clark

Except I can't quite imagine there is anyone is out there.

Lois

Oh, you never know, Clark. Even if you finally crack open that piggy bank, you found all this time you haven't been saving for a bike. You been really saving it for a Harley.

Clark

There are times when think you don't know me at all...and others where I think you know me better than anyone.

Lois

That's what I'm here for, Smallville -- one save at a time.

Clark

If you thought this friendship was so doomed from the beginning, then why did you fight so hard to keep it?

Lex

Because I wanted everything you had; the family, the inconspicuous life, the loyal girlfriend. Well, at least I walked away with the part you love the most.

Clark

Jor-El wants me to kill the person who will be the vessel. Zod will possess a human form, destroy Earth just as he did Krypton. But I can't kill anyone. You of all people should know that.

Lionel

Clark, the real test of a hero is knowing when the greater good will be served by an evil act. To save the Earth, the cost of one life is the price that must be paid.

Clark

Even if that life is your son?

Lex

Ever since that day on the bridge, you've always seen yourself as my savior; the one thing that would pull me off the dark path I'd started. See, that's why you cling to the idea that there's still some good in me. You don't want to face the fact that you might have failed.

Clark

Or maybe I just can't believe that someone would have so little willpower.

Lex

It's a little hard to compete with the iron willpower it takes to kill one of your best friends.

You have your father's eyes... hello, Kal-El.

Clark

Where's Lex?

Lex is dead.

Clark

Why are you here?

For the same reason as anyone who'd been imprisoned like a beast. Revenge. Your father banished me to an eternal hell, trying to save a doomed race. But, in the end, the only survivor of his pathetic crusade was his son.

Clark

Then this is between us. These people have done nothing to harm you.

No. But you feel no pain greater than to see others in agony.

Clark

I won't let you destroy this planet like you did Krypton.

You don't have a choice. Unless you join me.

Clark

I'll never join you.

I hope that's a decision you'll be able to live with... forever.

Zod is a soldier. He will kill you.

Clark

If there was a way for you to save everyone you loved, wouldn't you risk dying?

You truly are your father's son.

So easily beaten. Disappointing.

Clark

I won't let you destroy Earth, like you did Krypton.

Jor-El couldn't stop me, and neither will his son.

Clark

Then I'll die trying.

But you won't be the only one. These humans you care so much about... swear your allegiance to me, and I'll allow the ones you love the most to live...Kneel before Zod.

Chloe

When you escaped from that Kryptonian Land of the Lost, I bet you didn't think that you'd be rewarded by having to save Lex Luthor while battling a raging head cold, huh?

Clark

Not exactly the goodbye gift I was expecting, no.

Chloe

I guess heroes don’t get sick days.

Chloe

Clark, with a sneeze like yours, that says a lot about your lung capacity. Now just take a really deep breath and blow it out as hard as you can.

Clark

That's a steel door, it's not a birthday cake.

Chloe

I don't see anything else working. Come on, let's see what you got. Huff, puff, and blow this door down. [Clark blows] Good thing you didn't have garlic today.

Lois

Miracles really do happen: man walked on the moon, call waiting was created, and Lois Lane got her first by-line on the front page of the Inquisitor.

Chloe

Hey, that's great, Lo. I don't know how I feel about the alien angle, but...

Lois

I wasn't too crazy about the E.T. spin, either, but my editor insisted it'd help sell papers, so...

Clark

Well, let's hear it for journalistic integrity.

Lois

Look, I swear, you guys, when I was writing that article, I don't know... I don't think I've ever been happier in my life. The thrill of discovery, the clacking of keys, the scent of fresh ink. Yeah, I think I've finally found my calling.

Clark

Hey, how goes life living with Lois?

Chloe

Closer to coffee, further from sanity, but, you know, until Metropolis University reopens, I guess... what is it they say about a gift horse?

Clark

"Stay away from the mouth", which is difficult because Lois uses hers so much.

Lex

You've always had an eye for beauty. It's a Latin name, formositas falsus. "Beauty that belies a dark nature".

Clark

So, even your plants have hidden agendas.

Lex

Well, I guess it all comes down to survival of the fittest. Doesn't it?

Clark

A strange vine has cropped up over the ridge at Lone Pine. It's attacking people.

Lex

And naturally you came to my little shop of horrors to foil my ingenious plot to repopulate the planet with vegetation. Sorry, Clark. I'm all out of evil.

Kryptonians, always so hard and cold.

Clark

You can't go home. I can't let you stay. What are we gonna do?

We'll have to let nature decide.