Clark Kent quotes from Smallville

Chloe

Come on, Clark, you put a psycho killer away and you reunited a mother with her son. I mean, there are only so many hours in the day.

Clark

Well, see, that's the thing. No matter how many people I save, I can't solve the world's problems.

Chloe

I don't know anyone else who does more for this world than you.

Clark

You realize the only reason Lex is doing this is to wash his hands of it.

Lana

Lex had no idea what was going on on that farm.

Clark

Lana, you don't believe that.

Lana

Unlike some people I know, Lex doesn't lie to me.

Clark

Or he just wants his name clear of murder and slavery, so he sends a messenger to do his cleanup work.

Clark

People keep secrets for a reason.

Lois

I don't know. If you ask me, I think a secret is just a big loophole in the whole "thou shall not lie" clause.

Clark

There's just no gray area with you, is there?

Lois

Not when someone I thought I knew better than anyone has been keeping the biggest secret of all.

Clark

What are you talking about?

Lois

What would you do if one day you realized someone close to you had a serious hero complex?

Clark

Hero complex?

Lois

Hiding his true identity from everyone he supposedly cares about? You can't tell me you wouldn't find something wrong with that.

Clark

Who exactly are we talking about?

Chloe

Clark, before you unload your anger on me, can I just say that I think it is incredibly unfair that everyone trusts me to keep their secrets, and then they turn around and they throw me attitude for keeping someone else's secret! Look, I'm sorry that I had to take a two-second breather from hiding the fact that you are an alien from another planet to protect someone else for a change! God! [Clark hugs her] You had that coming, you know?

Clark

For the record... I prefer "intergalactic traveler" over "alien from another planet".

Chloe

The craziest part is he chucked a guy across an alley, right? [Lois: Oh yeah] And then supersped away. I mean, WHO does that?

Clark

Hmm. [pause] It's a good thing when Oliver showed up when he did. Then you know for sure.

Chloe

Oh, she knew before he showed up.

Clark

You did?

Chloe

Ask her how.

Clark

How?

Lois

I kissed him.

Chloe

Isn't that romantic? [Clark sighs and nods] Oh, I'm sorry Lois. Finish the story. [Clark tries to interrupt] This is the best part.

Lois

Hmmm. Well, he was holding me in his arms, and - Ollie's a good kisser, don't get me wrong - but that Green Arrow? He could teach Ollie a thing or two.

Victor

Ollie found me. I was living on the streets. He gave me a warm meal, roof over my head.... and a reason to go on living.

Oliver

Did he just say something nice about me?

Maybe he's starting to rust.

Clark

A.C., how'd you fall into all this?

I got into a little trouble sinking a whaler off the coast of Japan.

Victor

A little trouble? That's what you're gonna go with? Ollie had to save your scaly butt from getting filleted.

I would have gotten out of it.

Oliver

Before or after they packed you into a thousand little tin cans?

Victor

Well, at least he would have been dolphin-safe.

Fish jokes. That's all I ever get are fish jokes.

Oliver

Green Arrow to Watchtower, Boy Scout's out of the woods.

Clark

"Boy Scout"?

Oliver

Maybe if you hadn't run off all half-cocked, you could have picked your own code name.

Clark

Impulse, Cyborg, Aquaman, Green Arrow. What do you guys call your team?

Bart

I don't know. I've been thinking, you know, that we need something cool. We need something like.... like-

Oliver

I was thinking about something with the word "justice" in it. After all, that's what Lex is gonna get a big dose of.

You suffer from paranoid schizophrenia. You have for a number of years... after the death of your birth parents in the Smallville meteor shower.

Clark

See, it's not true. My birth parents were out of town for the meteor shower.

You were placed in the wonderful adoptive home of the Kents. But like many children, you invented a make-believe world to help you deal with the trauma you endured. You convinced yourself that you came from another planet, that you possessed special powers and you used them to save humanity.

John

You're not crazy, Kal-El. We don't have much time, so listen to me closely. I believe you're from another planet.

Clark

What makes you say that?

John

Because like you, I'm not from here. I come from Mars. You can't trust anyone.

Clark

I know who I am!

I'm not sure you do. Your name is Clark Kent, not Kal-El. And Jor-El isn't your father.

[over an intercom] Dr. Fine, Dr. Milton Fine, please report to level three, stat.

When the human mind has faced tremendous emotional pain, it has no choice but to protect itself. You've taken bits and pieces of your surroundings and created an alternate universe where you feel safe and secure. Clark... in a world where you truly have no power, you chose to give yourself superpowers.

Lana

Okay. Let's say that I am a hallucination... and that your world really does exist. I'm about to marry your greatest enemy. You're an alien from another planet who's responsible for so much tragedy. Do you really want to live in that reality?

Clark

I don't know what to believe anymore.

Lana

Don't you just want to take this treatment and be with me?

Clark

Of course I want to be with you... more than you could ever imagine.

Lana

Then stop fighting, please. You've lived like this for so long, carried this burden of being a hero. It's time to just let go and live a normal life.

Clark

I've never been normal.

Lana

Your destiny isn't to save the world, Clark. It's to be with me for the rest of our lives.

Lana

Are you gonna tell me? What's that look in your eye?

Clark

I had a dream about you last night.

Lana

I hope that it wasn't a nightmare.

Clark

No! We were 10 years old and I gave you a plastic ring from of a gumball machine in Quinn's Market.

Lana

That's sweet. What was the occasion?

Clark

It was an engagement ring.

Lana

So what happened next?

Clark

[speaking softly] I woke up....

Clark

The important part is... you were the one person who believed in me. I don't know what I'd do without you, Chloe.

Chloe

Oh, is this when I'm supposed to cue the Barry Manilow music?

Clark

What is it you always say about Valentine's Day? Oh, yeah. Our annual sneak peek at hell. That must have been before cupid struck.

Chloe

Don't you think after being trapped in a front seat to the Clark/Lana opera that I deserve a good V-Day?

Clark

You're the only person who can make me feel guilty, relieved, and a little sad all in one sentence.

Chloe

It's a gift.