Frank Langella credited as playing...
Perry White
- 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: Lois, Pulitzer Prizes are like Academy Awards, nobody remembers what you got one for, just that you got one.
- 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: 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.
- 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.