Superman II (1980)
Jackie Cooper: Perry White
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Quotes
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Perry White : [upon Clark entering his office] Kent, I need a background story for the page three sidebar. Get me everything you can on this terrorist group.
Clark Kent : Right!
[is about to leave but stops]
Clark Kent : Uh, sorry. T... terrorists?
Perry White : Get your head out of the clouds, Kent! Where've you been for the past twelve hours?
Clark Kent : Uh, Home.
Perry White : Well, don't you watch television?
Clark Kent : Frankly, Mr. White, I really don't enjoy television. Too much violence. I was just reading Dickens.
Jimmy Olsen : [races in] Mr. Kent! A gang of terrorists seized the Eiffel Tower! In Paris!
Perry White : He knows where the Eiffel Tower is, Olson!
[afterthought]
Perry White : You do, don't you Kent?
Clark Kent : Yes, sir.
[to Jimmy]
Clark Kent : Has anybody been hurt?
Jimmy Olsen : Well, so far the hostages are unharmed.
Clark Kent : The hostages?
Jimmy Olsen : Yeah! Tourists! About twenty of them!
Perry White : Yeah, but that's just penny ante stuff. These guys claim that if the French government doesn't meet their demands, they've got a hydrogen bomb ready to level Paris.
Clark Kent : Well, jeepers Mr. White. Tha-that's terrible!
Perry White : That's why they call them "terrorists," Kent.
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Perry White : If Paris is going to go kablooey I want my best reporter right in the middle of it... No offense, Kent. You're good, but Lois Lane's better.
Clark Kent : No, I mean uh, isn't that a bit dangerous, sir?
Perry White : That goes with the territory, Kent. Don't worry; if I know Lois Lane, she'll not only come back with a Pulitzer Prize story, but a one-on-one interview with the hydrogen bomb titled "What Makes Me Tick."