Helen Bryce quotes from Smallville

Lex Luthor

What are you here for?

Helen Bryce

I drop kicked an orderly. I have a violent reaction to incompetence.

Lex Luthor

The drop kick must have caught him off guard.

Helen Bryce

So, what did you do? Verbally demean your butler?

Lex Luthor

Cute. I took a 9 iron to a meter maid's car.

Helen Bryce

Wow, now I'm really jealous. I've always wanted to do that. How'd it feel?

Lex Luthor

Great.

Helen Bryce

Word of advice, keep that to yourself in here.

Lex Luthor

Guess I owe you a belated thank you.

Helen Bryce

Actually, I should be thanking you. It's cases like yours that convinced me to leave Metropolis.

Lex Luthor

I'm flattered I turned you from a life of nose jobs and liposuctions to small town medicine.

Helen Bryce

For the record, I refused to join my father's practice and we stopped speaking.

Lex Luthor

They hate when you do that.

Helen Bryce

Sounds like you speak from experience.

Lex Luthor

You witnessed my self-destructive phase. Then I almost let my father die... now I'm just trying to beat him at his own game.

Helen Bryce

How's that going?

Lex Luthor

I terrorize meter maids.

Helen Bryce

Yeah. I drop kick orderlies. It's funny, I was never an angry child.

Lex Luthor

You're telling me my father offered you $100,000 against your will? Why would he do that?

Helen Bryce

I can't even begin to fathom the depths of the Luthor family pathology.

Lex Luthor

You could have been honest. You could have told me.

Helen Bryce

I was about to. But before I could say a word, I realized I was in the middle of an interrogation.

Lex Luthor

Helen, if I had known...

Helen Bryce

No, I'm glad that this happened. It showed me who I was really dealing with. You know, I've done some pretty stupid things in my life, but this could possibly win the Nobel Prize for stupidity. I fell for someone who never really existed.

Lex Luthor

From the time I was born, I was raised in an environment of suspicion and distrust. My father taught me to regard everyone as an adversary no matter who they are.

Helen Bryce

I'm really sorry you had to grow up like that, Lex, I am.

Lex Luthor

When my mother died, I began to build a wall around my heart. Every year that wall grew taller and more fortified until eventually it became impenetrable. I want to tear the wall down, Helen, I do. I just-- I don't have the slightest clue how to do it.

Helen Bryce

Lex...

Lex Luthor

I never once asked anyone for help, but I'm asking you now. Help me, Helen. I don't want to become my father.

Jonathan Kent

Look, I need you to promise me that you won't tell anybody about this, and I mean anybody.

Helen Bryce

Mr. Kent, I take my doctor/patient confidentiality very seriously. But Clark needs proper care.

Jonathan Kent

Doctor, Clark isn't exactly what you'd call a normal boy.

Helen Bryce

I need to get a blood sample.

Jonathan Kent

Listen, Dr. Bryce, you can't do that.

Helen Bryce

Is this some sort of religious thing?

Jonathan Kent

No, I mean literally, you can't do that.

Lana Lang

If you knew that Lex was keeping secrets from you, but he was being truthful about the important things like, um, like the way he feels about you...would that be enough?

Dr. Helen Bryce

I guess you have to decide. Is the part of themselves they're willing to share with you better than not having them in your life at all?