It isn""t real.It doesn""t exist.It""s me, pretending I live on what I earn.It""s my mother, trying to keep herself young and drinking herself old doing it.She and Adam living in this house as though your father was still alive.It""s an old man like the judge, dreaming of the past.Anne, come away with me.Anne: And do what?Jack: Live in a shack and eat red beans.Anne, what do you want me o do?Anne: Oh Jack, you haven""t been sure.You""ve gone from one thing o the other.A year at law school and now this job as a reporter.Jack: Are you afraid I can""t make a living?Anne: Oh no Jack, it isn""t that.I don""t care about the money.It""s just that I, I want you to be something.Jack: What is it you want me to be?Anne: I don""t know.It""s just that I want you to be, to do something important.Jack (sarcastically turning toward the portrait): Like your father? All right, I""ll run for governor.Superman""s adoptive earthling parents were the Kents (a Kansas farm couple Jonathan and Martha), who were portrayed by Diane Lane and Kevin Costner, andDaily Planetboss Perry White was played by Laurence Fishburne.Wilks: I""m the one that gets the pressure calls from upstairs.I""m the one that has to explain.You don""t keep an office like this very long stepping on a lot of corns.Bannion: Do you want me to go upstairs and explain?Wilks: Not you.You""re a corn-stepper by instinct."A corn-stepper by instinct," Bannion is not able to understand why he is ordered to lay off the case and "stop pestering the widow," since he now realizes that Lucy told the truth: "She talks to me just once - (he clicks his finger) - like that, she""s dead." Ethan was conflicted about her, having romantic feelings for her himself, but not entirely trusting her.