Superman II (1980)

Marc McClure: Jimmy Olsen

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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.

• 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 : There's Mr. Kent. Bet he wishes he'd been around when it all happened.

  Lois Lane : Clark, he's never around when Superman appears.