Ben Affleck credited as playing...
George Reeves
- Kenneth Giles: [after defeating villains in a live show] Hey, Superman! Hey, Superman!
- George Reeves: Well, hello there, young man, what's your name?
- Kenneth Giles: [brandishing a gun] Kenneth Giles. Can I shoot you?
- George Reeves: [he sees that it's a real gun and is suddenly very serious] Kenneth, why would you want to do something like that?
- Kenneth Giles: So the bullet bounces off. Can I?
- George Reeves: Well, if you did shoot me and the bullet bounced off, it might accidentally hit someone else. We don't want that to happen, do we?
- Kenneth Giles: No...
- George Reeves: Why don't you just, you and I... Here we go, partner. Why don't you just give me that? Just hand me that...
- Toni Mannix: Straight arrow George! You go to New York, and you fuck some whore, and you run back to tell me!
- George Reeves: She's not a whore.
- Toni Mannix: She's an actress. A singer? Does she blow smoke rings with her cunt?
- George Reeves: [about Leonore Lemmon] She makes me feel young.
- Toni Mannix: [obviously offended] Have you seen yourself, George? Your face is going.
- George Reeves: Don't do this...
- Toni Mannix: Here, your eyes, your hair, your stomach.
- George Reeves: Stop it.
- Toni Mannix: You think no one notices?
- George Reeves: Toni, don't do this.
- Toni Mannix: But you've got your projects, haven't you? You're going to be a director. You'll sit in your little canvas chair polishing your balls. "Thank God I got rid of that hag I had to screw. What was her name? The one who paid for everything! The one who bought me a fucking house!".
- George Reeves: For God's sake...
- Toni Mannix: You want publicity? You'll get it. I'll say you're a Red. And a faggot. A lush. Nobody can call that a lie!
- George Reeves: You know what? You've never helped me. You never helped me! You could've talked to Eddie. You could've gotten me something, but you didn't! Because you liked me where I was, in a fucking red suit! You liked that! Well, that's not who I am, understand? God damn you!
- Toni Mannix: ...But, George, that's all you were good for. Ten-year-olds and shut-ins. That was the best you were ever going to be. I knew that, why didn't you?
- George Reeves: [after falling from a snapped wire holding him up] I'd like to thank the Academy and all the good people of Galesburg, Illinois, for making me who I am today.
- [turns and walks away]
- George Reeves: [looks at himself in the mirror after putting on Superman costume for the first time] I look like a damned fool!
- Toni Mannix: [Reeves steps in to get a photograph with Rita Hayworth] Just made it.
- George Reeves: Beg your pardon?
- Toni Mannix: Into the picture.
- George Reeves: Was someone taking a picture? I hadn't noticed.
- [Reeves lights Mannix' cigarette]
- Toni Mannix: My, we're awfully well-trained, Mister...
- George Reeves: George Reeves.
- [Mannix laughs]
- George Reeves: Was it the line or the delivery?
- Toni Mannix: I laugh when I'm happy.
- George Reeves: I see. Well, who is it I'm making so happy?
- Toni Mannix: I'm Toni.
- George Reeves: Just a poor girl with no last name.
- [Mannix laughs again]
- George Reeves: I had no idea I could spread this much joy!
- Toni Mannix: Who knows what you might be spreading?
- [Reeves grins]
- Toni Mannix: Your turn.
- George Reeves: I'm afraid you've got me!
- Leonore Lemmon: So, how about an autograph for my poor crippled nephew?
- George Reeves: Is he in an iron lung?
- Leonore Lemmon: He's in Yonkers.
- Toni Mannix: She's a lesbian, you know.
- George Reeves: Who?
- Toni Mannix: The one playing Lois.
- George Reeves: Phyllis? Is she really?
- Toni Mannix: No. She is now, as far as you're concerned.
- George Reeves: Well... there it is.
- Toni Mannix: [Wryly] I have another seven good years, then my ass drops like a duffel bag.
- George Reeves: Well, it seems alright now.
- Toni Mannix: Thank you for noticing.
- Art Weissman: An actor can't always act. Sometimes he has to work.
- George Reeves: You're talking to the man who defended Camelot with a cardboard sword.
- Art Weissman: I enjoyed you in that.
- George Reeves: You were the oldest boy in the theater.
- Art Weissman: Look, it's a dirt-cheap kiddie show. It doesn't even have a sponsor. Odds are no one's ever gonna see it.
- George Reeves: [sarcastically] It's just sounding better and better.
- Natividad Vacio: We're two steps from the men's room. Anyone sees us, they'll think we're queer.
- George Reeves: You do look fetching tonight.
- Toni Mannix: Well, maybe it wasn't your proudest moment.
- George Reeves: No, I'm quite sure it wasn't.
- Toni Mannix: But you did create a very likable, very attractive, very heroic character.
- George Reeves: Is that right?
- Toni Mannix: I'd fuck you in a second.
- Leonore Lemmon: Goddamn! Make room for fucking Daddy! You know what, stallion?
- George Reeves: What?
- Leonore Lemmon: I think you're starting to get the hang of this. Let's do it again.
- George Reeves: This makes sense to me. I can set up my own projects. Direct and produce and - we'll get some other sap to jump around in colored underwear.
- George Reeves: I know when I'm out of my league.
- Leonore Lemmon: Don't sell yourself short. I got a big heart. I'll bet you've got a big one, too.
- Toni Mannix: Just made it.
- George Reeves: I beg your pardon?
- Toni Mannix: Into the picture.
- George Reeves: [smirking] Was someone taking a picture? I hadn't noticed.
- George Reeves: They're picking up Superman.
- Toni Mannix: They're what?
- George Reeves: Kellogg's. They bought it.
- Toni Mannix: After two years?
- George Reeves: That's right. And I will be on television in a month. Wearing brown and gray underpants.