The problem with men of steel, there's never one around when you want one.

6 seconds sound clip from the Superman (1978) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:56:15 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Those things I can do, all those powers, and I couldn't even save him.

- It is forbidden. It is forbidden. It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history. It is forbidden.

- Come on. Come on.

- Hi. Don't bother, I think it's dead.

- Sure it's dead.

- The problem with men of steel, there's never one around when you want one.

- Know what happened to me while you were off flying around? I was almost in an earthquake, I had this gas station blow up, there's telephone poles falling all over the road...

- I'm almost killed, and to top the whole thing off, this stupid car runs out of gas!

- I'm sorry about that, Lois, but I've been kind of busy for a while.

- I'm sorry. That's all right. We're sort of alike, aren't we? I mean, our work comes first.

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