Lewis: You are, all of you, amateurs. And international affairs should never be run by gentlemen amateurs. Do you have any idea of what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could just act out of your noble instincts, are over. Europe has become the arena of realpolitik, the politics of reality. If you like: real politics. What you need is not gentlemen politicians, but real ones. You need professionals to run your affairs, or you're headed for disaster.
Quotes from Christopher Reeve movies and TV shows
Richard Collier: Please, don't leave. You have no idea how far I've come to be with you.
Richard Collier: I owe you an apology. I understand you now. You have nothing but the best motives in mind for her, but so do I.
Richard Collier: Arthur, you know in the Hall of History, there's a photograph, a young woman. There's no nameplate.
Arthur Biehl: Yes, that's Elise McKenna. She was a famous actress in her day. Starred in a play in the hotel theater.
Richard Collier: I-I'm sorry. Did you say there was a theater here?
Arthur Biehl: Yes. Down by the lake.
Richard Collier: Really? When was this play done?
Arthur Biehl: 1912.
Superman: I'm here to fight for truth, justice and the American way.
Clark Kent: All those things I can do. All those powers. And I couldn't even save him.
Superman: Easy, miss. I've got you.
Lois Lane: You've got me? Who's got you?
Clark Kent: Excuse me, Mr. White. I was wondering if, if, uh, perhaps you could arrange for half my salary to be sent to this address on a weekly basis.
Lois Lane: Your bookie, right?
Clark Kent: My what?
Lois Lane: Don't tell me: he sends a check every week to his sweet, grey-haired old mother.
Clark Kent: Actually, she's silver-haired.
Superman: Is that how a warped brain like yours gets its kicks? By plotting the deaths of innocent people?
Lex Luthor: By causing the deaths of innocent people.
Superman: Good evening, Warden. I think these two men should be safe with you now until they can get a fair trial.
Prison Warden: Who is that, Superman?
Lex Luthor: Lex Luthor, the greatest criminal mind of our time!
Otis: Of our time!
Lex Luthor: I hereby serve notice...
Otis: He's serving notice!
Lex Luthor: That these walls...
Otis: That these walls here...
Lex Luthor: Will you shut up please?!
[Superman stops the falling elevator with Lois on the underside of it.]
Superman: I believe this is your floor.
Superman: You'd risk world wide nuclear war for your own personal financial gain.
Lex Luthor: Nobody wants war. I just want to keep the threat alive.
Mara Chaffee: Emotion is irrelevant, it is not our nature.
Dr. Alan Chaffee: I'm not sure you're right about that, Mara.
Mara Chaffee: Still you are aware of the others so you must be in some basic sense aware of who... what we are.