Clark Kent quotes from Smallville

Clark

I wish you could come back and visit more often.

Martha

I had to let go of this place for a while, Clark, but I never let go of you. I'll be back soon.

Clark

Maybe next time you can ease up on the kryptonite.

Clark Kent

I died to save the world.

Jor-El

Evil never ends. By sacrificing yourself, you have left the humans vulnerable to future threats.

Clark Kent

I left a team of heroes behind to protect them.

Jor-El

You were meant to be Earth's greatest protector. Now, they are about to face the greatest evil without you.

Clark Kent

Then send me back! I know my fate! To step into the light! To be a symbol of hope for them.

Jor-El

I told you to rule with strength, but you chose the martyr's path. What makes you think you deserve a second chance?

Clark Kent

I can do it. I can be their hero!

Clark Kent

Sometimes I think it would be easier if you were here.

Jonathan Kent

Not a day goes by, Clark, when I don't regret not being able to be right here for you. I would do anything, I would give anything to able to get a second chance to get it right. You got that second chance, son. You could be the greatest hero the world has ever known.

Clark Kent

Not according to Jor-El.

Jonathan Kent

Well, then, do what you do best. Prove him wrong. Jor-El was right about one thing. Something dark is coming. You're gonna be tested. It's not gonna be easy, son. But I have faith in you.

Clark Kent

I defeated Lex. I refused to let him win. And I pushed myself harder than I ever have before. For a second, I thought I was flying. But I saved everyone, I don't know how but I saved them all. I've finally become the hero you sent me here to be.

Jor-El

Pride... vanity... you almost took a man's life and you dare tell me you are following the path that I set out for you?

Clark Kent

You told me that I have unfinished business. An evil here that I had to face! And Lex...!

Jor-El

The evil is you, Kal-El. The greatest threat Earth will face is coming. It preys on wavering souls like yours. Once this darkness consumes you, you will be Earth's greatest enemy.

Clark Kent

That's not my fate.

Jor-El

You cannot be a beacon of hope when you have darkness in your heart.

Clark Kent

Then why did you send me back? Why did you give me a second chance?!

Jor-El

I didn't. It was not my decision to give you back your life.

Clark Kent

You may not see me as a hero. But the rest of the world does! And I decide my fate!

Jor-El

I regret as a father, my faith in you blinded me to the truth. You will never be Earth's savior.

Kara Kent

It was a start.

Clark Kent

It's not flying if it's mostly falling.

Kara Kent

It's critical that I get my image around the city, as soon as possible. You just have to trust me Kal-El. I'm doing this for you.

Clark Kent

Kara, this doesn't feel like much of a favor.

Kara Kent

I've searched so long for my mother, and I never found her. You and I are the last survivors of the House of El. And after everything that we've been through together, I had to come back to the one place in the universe that I had family.

Clark Kent

Well, what you are doing right now, flies in the face of how I've chosen to live on this planet my whole life. We both know that. Now if you really care about family, tell me what you doing here and stop avoiding the question!

Kara Kent

I didn't want to hurt you. Jor-El has given me a mission. I'm getting my powers and image around the city as part of it.

Clark Kent

He gave you a mission? What did he say?

Kara Kent

He's let you go, Kal-El. I'm sorry. He says, you're no longer his son.

Lois Lane

Come on. Did you forget? Tomorrow's our Smallville High reunion.

Clark Kent

Did you say our reunion?

Lois Lane

Yes.

Clark Kent

You were enrolled there for like...

Lois Lane

Twenty three days.

Clark Kent

You showed up for five.

Lois Lane

That's a record in my book. Smallville is the closest thing to a past that this military brat has, and I am not gonna miss it. We don't have to be dating to show up at a reunion together.

Clark Kent

There's a lot of memories there for me.

Lois Lane

Come on, Clark. It would mean a lot to me, seeing all those familiar faces, like I had a place to fit in. And you, I mean, you put the Smallville in Smallville, Smallville.

Clark Kent

I don't know if you're a ghost from my past or the darkness Jor-El that warned me about, but this will come to an end, just like I did the last time.

I hope so for your sake.

Clark Kent

My sake? You sent the person I love away. You tried to destroy Chloe, you tried to destroy the world.

And you saved me from all of that, Kal-El. I have come back to do the same for you. (shows wearing Legion ring)

Clark Kent

The Legion. You're from the future. What'd you do to them?

I joined them. In the 31st century, I'm known as Brainiac 5. The ring, time travel - all my creatons. I brought the Legion into a new realm of heroism.

Clark Kent

I helped them destroy you.

No. They helped you cure me. The problem is Kal-El, you and I aren't very different. We were both created in one way or another by Jor-El, both intended to save civilizations, to bring peace to a brutal world. But neither was immune to corruption to darkness.

Clark Kent

What does that mean? All of sudden everyone's telling me that I have darkness within me. I don't understand what it is or how I'm suppose to change it. You destroyed cities. I may not make the right decisions, but at least I'm trying to save people.

Then let me show you, Kal-El. We can't always see it in ourselves, my corruption started with a nanobyte - smaller than the eye can see. But that's all it took.

Wait a minute. Oh, no. Kryptonite again?

Clark Kent

Look, I...

(looks into Clark's eyes) Blue? Red? Not green? Please tell me it's not the black. Because that was a disaster.

Clark Kent

Look, I just... I need the Legion ring. Lois, do you know where it is?

Is that a joke, Clark? Touch it once, shame on you. Touch it twice it, shame on me. And actually, I could really use it right now, because we need to be on the opposite sides of town in ten minutes.

I'm only here for you. I wanted to slow things down. Make sure you can soak in this special moment.

Clark Kent

And what's so special about this moment?

This is the moment that your life changes forever.

(to Clark, describing his Lois) She's a handful, isn't she? You're right on time.

Clark Kent

You knew I'd be here.

Time travel. Think it through.

Clark Kent

Because you were me when you went through this and I'm...

Well done, my man.

Clark Kent

How did I become so uptight? (looks his future self up and down) And nerdy?

(irritated) There's no time to chat about how, when, and why! We've been through weirder things and I need you on the roof!

Clark Kent

When did I start taking orders?

There's a nuclear reactor that's about to blow on the other side of town. Now, I can't be in two places at once.

Clark Kent

If you knew it was going to happen, then why didn't you stop it?

Because then you wouldn't have experienced all this. And you would never have become me.

Clark Kent

(under his breath) That's too bad.

Roof. Now. (superspeeds away)

Clark Kent

(inspired) That's what I become.

Lois Lane

Ow! Uh What the hell? (goes to punch Cat but is stopped by Clark)

Clark Kent

Ladies, who wants to go first?

Lois Lane

She stabbed me!

(at the same time as Lois) She's the Blur!

Lois Lane

That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. And I thought you were a bottle blonde.

Clark Kent

In the future, Lois already knew about me. What I didn't see is how I told her and when. My instincts have always been to keep my secret, but then I see five minutes of the future that seems too good to be true, and--

Oliver Queen

You came over here hoping that I would try to talk you out of telling her, right?

Clark Kent

No. Maybe.

Oliver Queen

Well... I hate to break it to you, but I say go for it. Best thing I ever did. I could finally be myself. And it turns out people actually like the real me.

Clark Kent

If I remember correctly, coming out to Lois did not have a happy ending. You told Lois the truth, and she dumped you.

Oliver Queen

That - we broke up. Look, Lois and I were never really meant to be together. Clark, she loves you. That makes you a lucky man. Take it from me, living without love is not really living, it's just sort of existing. The question you have to ask yourself is what are you willing to risk for love?

Clark Kent

All my life I've been afraid, Lois. Afraid of people knowing the truth about me. Afraid of them rejecting me, and even if they didn't, still losing them. I've been afraid of everything I can't control. But when I was faced with the idea of losing you forever, it made me realize there's something I'd regret more than anything else, and that's not telling you the truth about me. 'Cause that's the only way we could share a life together. I know the odds are stacked against us and we'd be risking everything, but if you're ready to take that leap, there's no one else that I'd want to take that leap with. Lois, you've had a lot of questions about The Blur, it's me. I'm The Blur.

Lois Lane

(jumps on Clark, kissing him) What took you so long?

Clark Kent

(confused, realizing that she already knows) What? You...

Lois Lane

Our "Twilight Zone" acid trip to the, uh, Phantom prison - that place was...

Clark Kent

Kryptonian.

Lois Lane

Mm. And that horny-toad-looking thing that crashed Chloe and Jimmy's wedding?

Clark Kent

Kryptonian.

Lois Lane

Mm. And the spaceship that I found in the woods near the dam?

Clark Kent

Also Kryptonian, but it wasn't mine - it was my cousin's.

Lois Lane

Sorry about the third degree, Clark. It's just not every week a girl learns her boyfriend's an...

Clark Kent

Alien? And you're still okay with that?

Lois Lane

Are you kidding me? It's like dating a god or Bono.