Jimmy Olsen Quotes in Superman (1978)

Perry White: Olsen! Why am I paying you forty dollars a week when I should have you arrested for loitering? Go get Mr... er...

Clark Kent: Kent.

Perry White: ...Kent here a towel!

Jimmy Olsen: Right, Chief.

Perry White: And make mine black and no sugar!

Jimmy Olsen: Right, Chief.

Perry White: And don't call me 'sugar'!

Jimmy Olsen: What are you writing, Miss Lane?

Lois Lane: An ode to spring. How do you spell massacre?

Jimmy Olsen: Look up in the sky, see?

[Points at a small figure of Superman in the picture]

Lois Lane: It's a bird

Perry White: It's a plane

Jimmy Olsen: No, it's...

[Is interrupted by the entrance of Clark]

Clark Kent: You wanted to see me?

Clark Kent: Jimmy how did Lex Luthor get out of prison?

Jimmy Olsen: When his appeals came up, they called Superman as a witness, and he never showed. How much do you think that pisses off Superman?

Clark Kent: A lot.

Jimmy Olsen: A lot

Clark Kent: Thanks for giving me my job back.

Perry White: Don't thank me. Thank Norm Parker for dying!

Jimmy Olsen: It was his time.

Jimmy Olsen: [leans over an unsuspecting Clark who is holding a family photo of Lois, Jason, and Richard] Ha, yea! He looks just like his mom. Already takes after her too, especially when it comes to getting into trouble.

Clark Kent: [obviously confused] Mother?

Jimmy Olsen: Oh yea, well I guess you've been gone. Fearless reporter Lois Lane is a mommy.

Clark Kent: [cracks the glass and winces] I'm sorry.

Jimmy Olsen: [takes the picture from Clark] It's okay. She's got plenty of them.

Clark Kent: She's married?

Jimmy Olsen: Yeah, well no, its more of a prolonged engagement, but don't ask Miss Lane when they're tying the knot because she hates that question

Clark Kent: Yeah. Well, you know, things change. I mean, of course things change, but sometimes things that you didn't think would change

[struggles to find the right wording]

Clark Kent: could - change. Take Lois. A woman like her, I never thought she'd settle down.

Jimmy Olsen: You know, if you ask me - 'cause she'll never tell you this - but, if you ask me, she's still in love with You-Know-Who.

[takes a swig of beer]

Clark Kent: [slowly turns to look disconcertedly at Jimmy, who burps obliviously]

Jimmy Olsen: Mr. Clark! I mean, Kent. Mr. Kent! Welcome back!

Supergirl: You've had your fun, Selena. The game is finished.

Selena: Hardly. One false step, bluebird, and even if you don't, your friends will get the point.

[Selena lowers three cages over hot spikes coming out of floor]

Jimmy Olsen: Hey, no!

Lucy Lane: I don't like this.

Jimmy Olsen: Don't worry, Lucy. Don't worry.

Supergirl: I wouldn't, if I were you.

Selena: Well, you're not me.

Supergirl: Oh. I have to go. I have to return this to where it belongs. And I must ask you all something.

Jimmy Olsen: It's all right, Supergirl. We never saw you.

Lucy Lane: We never even heard of you.

Perry White: I don't understand you Olsen. A boring banquet and you bring me three thousand boring pictures. Yet Superman saves a man from drowning on 3rd Avenue this morning while you stand there watching the whole thing and you don't even bring me one picture.

Jimmy Olsen: Chief, I didn't have my camera with me.

Perry White: [while Jimmy mouths the words he knows by heart] A photographer *eats* with his camera. A photographer *sleeps* with his camera.

Lois Lane: I'm glad I'm a writer.

Jimmy Olsen: Clark, I want you to keep these people distracted so they don't know what I'm doing.

Clark Kent: What are you doing?

Jimmy Olsen: What am I doing? Remember what the chief said? A photographer always goes after a story.

Clark Kent: That could be dangerous, Jimmy.

Jimmy Olsen: Danger? Goes with the territory, Mister Kent.

Perry White: [upon Clark entering his office] Kent, I need a story to run with the page three sidebard. 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 closet, Kent! Where've you been for the past twelve hours?

Clark Kent: 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 petty 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, geez Mr. White. That's t... terrible!

Perry White: That's why they call them "terrorists," Kent.

General Zod: [after rampaging through the Daily Planet, Zod thinks he has found Superman. He holds Jimmy way up by the collar] ... *This* is the son of Jor-El?

Jimmy Olsen: No, but I'll bet *you're* the son of a...!

Lois Lane: [cutting him off] *Jimmy!*

Jimmy Olsen: [unaware of approaching derailment] This train is really goin'. The engineer must be late for dinner.

Lois Lane: The way he's traveling he hasn't eaten all week!

[looks out window]