Lex Luthor quotes from Smallville

Lex Luthor

So now you're implying I pulled the trigger?

Clark Kent

It's not like I haven't seen you shoot someone before.

Lex Luthor

Get out of here before you say something you really regret.

Clark Kent

I'm not going anywhere. Not until I get some answers. Are you trying to frame my dad?

Lex Luthor

After all this time, I thought you knew me better than the average tabloid reader.

Clark Kent

If you don't start trusting me with the truth, what else am I supposed to think?

Lex Luthor

Stay out of it, Clark.

Clark Kent

My dad's life is at stake here!

Lex Luthor

So is my father's!

Clark Kent

You grow up with someone, you think you know them, but... I mean, darkness like that just doesn't come out of nowhere... I'm sorry about your company. What's gonna happen next?

Lex Luthor

My father thinks I'll go back to work for him.

Clark Kent

Will you?

Lex Luthor

It's hard to imagine working for a man who can enrage four people to the point where any one of them had motive to kill him.

Clark Kent

Even you.

Lex Luthor

You know that darkness you were talking about? I'm not sure we're born with it. I think people like my father find a way to bring it out.

Lex Luthor

So you took an honest man and destroyed him. And by proxy, almost ruined Jonathan Kent. How does it feel, Dad, knowing you brought this on yourself?

Lionel Luthor

But I didn't, Lex. You did... engineering your ill-advised employee coup.

Lex Luthor

And you actually believe that?

Lionel Luthor

It's all right, son. I forgive you.

Lex Luthor

I bet a lot of people are out looking for you. Like your friends from Edge City.

Oh, wow, Lex, is that a threat?

Lex Luthor

You know, Lucas, the Luthor gene pool is a shark tank, and our father's just chummed the waters. Good Luck.

Clark Kent

I'm sorry that Lucas didn't turn out to be the brother you wanted.

Lex Luthor

Considering his father, I'm surprised he's still alive at all.

Clark Kent

Where is Lucas now?

Lex Luthor

Safe. But I'm going to have some work to do to regain his trust.

Clark Kent

You will. You're not your father.

Lex Luthor

Sometimes, Clark, we're all held hostage by the will of our fathers. The only difference is, your dad is a good man. All my father does is push people away.

Clark Kent

As long as I live, I don't think I'm ever going to understand your family.

Lex Luthor

Neither will I. Just remember, my father may try and rule the world, but yours will inherit the earth.

Lex Luthor

I never figured you for having an identity crisis, Clark.

Clark Kent

It's for a friend.

Lex Luthor

Haven't heard that one before. What's your friend's problem? Napoleon or Messiah complex?

Clark Kent

Actually he thinks he's an alien.

Lex Luthor

So that proves he isn't... come on, Clark, if you were really an alien would you go around telling people about it?

Clark Kent

Probably not.

Lex Luthor

Let me guess. Your friend, he's a little odd. Spends a lot of time alone, thinks no one understands him. I just described myself in high school. It's a classic outsider profile. I'd say he's just trying to get attention. You believe there are aliens among us, Clark?

Lex Luthor

Lana, I know what it's like to feel vulnerable.

Lana Lang

You?

Lex Luthor

Trust me. Eccentric bald kids sit pretty low on the prep school totem pole.

Lionel Luthor

I wanted to give you my gift in person, since it's obvious by now that I won't be receiving a wedding invitation.

Lex Luthor

You offered the woman I love a hundred thousand dollars to leave me.

Lionel Luthor

I did you a favor, Lex. That was the ultimate test of loyalty and she passed with flying colors. You should be thanking me.

Lex Luthor

Well, my thank you note must be lost in the mail along with your invitation.

Lionel Luthor

I like to think that I treat everyone at LuthorCorp as part of the family.

Lex Luthor

Well, that would explain the lack of loyalty.

Lionel Luthor

All right, Lex, what's the crisis? One minute you want nothing to do with me and then I'm inundated with urgent messages.

Lex Luthor

How does it feel to play God, Dad?

Lionel Luthor

The wall, Doctor. What does it say?

"The last son will rule the planet". Don't you see? It's Clark Kent!

Lex Luthor

I think that's a pretty big leap.

No! I've never seen more clearly in my life. I know exactly what has to be done.

Lionel Luthor

What is that, Doctor?

We have to kill Clark Kent, before he destroys us all.

Clark Kent

I'm going to rule the world? He's obviously nuts.

Lex Luthor

Of course he is. Unfortunately my father was there. He heard the whole thing.

Clark Kent

But he didn't believe him, did he?

Lex Luthor

He quoted one of his favorite Elizabethan poets. "'Twixt truth and madness lies but a sliver of a stream". He's not just gonna let this drop. I thought I'd warn you.

Lex Luthor

You killed your father.

Yeah, it was inevitable. I had to do it. Only one of us could survive. See, back there, he was a rich and powerful guy. He was always criticizing me, never thinking I was good enough. And it just kept chipping away, chipping away till there was nothing left... I thought you and I were kindred spirits.

Lex Luthor

No, Louis. You're a psychopath.

Well, there's one in all of us. I just let mine out.

Lex Luthor

It's ironic. In the most remote solitude I still managed to find an enemy. I suppose I was just hallucinating from malaria, but the enemy I found was real. I got a good look at myself, or at least the part I've always tried to ignore.

Clark Kent

Lex, I guess we all got to take a look at our dark side sooner or later.

Lex Luthor

The problem is if you stare at it long enough, it can get hard to tell the two sides apart.