Perry White Quotes in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Perry White: Nobody cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman.

Perry White: Kent? Where the hell is Kent? Where did he go? Where does he go?

Clark Kent: It's like a one man reign of terror. This bat vigilante has been consistently targeting the port and the adjacent projects and tenements, and as far as I can tell the cops are actually helping him.

Perry White: 'Crime Wave in Gotham'! Other breaking news: 'Water, wet'!

Perry White: [to Clark] You don't get to decide what the right thing is!

Perry White: Two weeks leave, no pay, that's your penance. You try something like this again, you're done here.

Lois Lane: [turning to leave] Fine.

Perry White: So let's make it three weeks, since you're so willing to agree with me.

Lois Lane: Perry...

Perry White: No, no. Don't. Don't. I believe you saw something, Lois. But not for a moment do I believe that your leads just went cold. So whatever your reasons are for dropping it, I think you're doing the right thing.

Lois Lane: Why?

Perry White: Can you imagine how people on this planet would react if they knew there was someone like this out there?

Jenny: [trapped under rubble] Don't leave me!

Perry White: [takes her hand] I'm not going to leave you. Lombard, get your ass over here!

Perry White: Now listen to me, I tell you boys and girls - whichever one of you gets it out... is going to wind up with the single most important interview since... God talked to Moses!

Perry White: Lois, Clark Kent may seem like just a mild-mannered reporter, but listen, not only does he know how to treat his editor-in-chief with the proper respect, not only does he have a snappy, punchy prose style, but he is, in my forty years in this business, the fastest typist I've ever seen.

Perry White: Now look. The Post: "It Flies." The News: "Look, Ma, No Wires." The Times: "Blue Bomb Buzzes Metropolis." The Planet. We're sitting on top of the story of the century here! I want the name of this flying whatchamacallit to go with the Daily Planet like bacon and eggs, franks and beans, death and taxes, politics and corruption.

Clark Kent: I don't think he would lend himself to any cheap promotion schemes though Mr. White.

Perry White: Exactly how you would you know that Kent?

Clark Kent: Um, just a first impression?

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: 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: Thanks for giving me my job back.

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

Jimmy Olsen: It was his time.

Perry White: [Explaining to Lois Lane why she must write an article on the return of Superman, rather than a massive power outage] Three things sell this newspaper: Tragedy, sex, and Superman. These people have had enough tragedy, and we all know you can't write worth a damn about sex.

Perry White: [discussing headlines] Has he gained weight?

[Clark suddenly looks down]

Perry White: Lois, Pulitzer Prizes are like Academy Awards, nobody remembers what you got one for, just that you got one.

Perry White: Okay listen up. I wanna know it all, everything. Olsen, I wanna see photos of him everywhere. No, I want the photos. Sports, how are they going to get that plane out of the stadium? Travel, where did he go? Was he on vacation? If so, where? Gossip, has he met somebody? Fashion, is that a new suit? Uh, health, has he gained weight? What's he been eating? Business, how is this gonna effect the stock market? Long-term? Short-term? Politics, does he still stand for truth, justice, all that stuff? Lifestyle... Superman returns.

Perry White: Great Caesar's ghost.

Lois Lane: But there are a dozen other stories out there.

Perry White: Yeah? Name one.

Lois Lane: Well, there was a museum robbery last night. Hmm? Even Superman missed that one... he was too busy saving this hooker.

[points at photo of Superman carrying Kitty]

[Newspaper headline reads: "SUPERMAN IS DEAD"]

Richard White: It's a little morbid, Perry.

Perry White: Always be prepared.

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.

Perry White: I don't have to tell you, it isn't easy for me to lose one of my best reporters.

Clark Kent: Oh, that's okay.

Perry White: But you deserve the vacation, Lois.

Lois Lane: Thank you.

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.

Perry White: If Paris is going to go kablooie I want my best reporter right in the middle of it... No offense, Kent. You're good, but Lois Lane's better.

Clark Kent: It's not that; I mean, isn't that awfully dangerous for her?

Perry White: That goes with the territory, Kent. Relax; 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."

Perry White: Has anyone here seen Kent? He hasn't shown up to work all day. If he doesn't get here soon, I'm gonna kick his sorry ass so hard through that door, they'll think Jesus Christ did it.

Perry White: [gruffly] What do you want?

Superman: [as Clark Kent] Uh... a job.

Perry White: [sarcastically] Any special kind? Or would mine do?

Superman: Well, I would like to be a reporter. I haven't had any experience in writing, but... uh...

Perry White: That should help.

Superman: Well, I have other qualifications that might be valuable.