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| Olivia Wenscombe | [referring to Angier] He wants me to come work for you and steal your secrets. | |
| Alfred Borden | What does he need my secrets for? His trick is top-notch. He vanishes, and then he reappears instantly on the other side of the stage - mute, overweight, and unless I'm mistaken, very drunk. It's astonishing, how does he do it? |
| Olivia Wenscombe | It won't bring your wife back. | |
| Robert Angier | I don't care about my wife. I care about his secret. |
| Robert Angier | Which hat is mine? | |
| Nikola Tesla | They are all your hat, Mr. Angier. |
| Cutter | Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige". |
| Cutter | [last lines] Now you're looking for the secret. But you won’t find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled. |
| Alfred Borden | [after showing the coin trick to a little boy] Never show anyone. They'll beg you and they'll flatter you for the secret, but as soon as you give it up... you'll be nothing to them. |
| Alfred Borden | The secret impresses no one. The trick you use it for is everything. |
| Alfred Borden | Are you watching closely? |
| Cutter | I knew a sailor once, got tangled in the rigging. We pulled him out, but it took him five minutes to cough. He said it was like going home. |
| Nikola Tesla | Exact science, Mr Angier, is not an exact science. |
| Robert Angier | But here, at the turn, I must leave you Borden. Yes, you, Borden, sitting there in your cell, awaiting your death. For my murder. |
| Nikola Tesla | Society tolerates only one change at a time. |
| Robert Angier | He lives his act. |
| Officer | [before hanging Borden for the murder of Angier] Do you have anything to say? | |
| Alfred Borden | Abracadabra. |
| Cutter | Take a minute to consider your achievement. I once told you about a sailor who drowned. | |
| Robert Angier | Yes, he said it was like going home. | |
| Cutter | I lied. He said it was agony. |
| Alfred Borden | A real magician tries to invent something new, that other magicians are gonna scratch their heads over. |
| Alfred Borden | Simple maybe, but not easy. |
| Robert Angier | You never understood why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple, it's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you... then you got to see something really special... you really don't know?... it was... it was the look on their faces.... |
| Nikola Tesla | You're familiar with the phrase "man's reach exceeds his grasp"? It's a lie: man's grasp exceeds his nerve. |
| Robert Angier | I don't know if I trust him. | |
| Cutter | He's a natural magician. Of course you can't trust him. |
| Robert Angier | If people thought the things I did on stage were real, they wouldn't clap -- they'd scream. Think of sawing a woman in half. |
| Robert Angier | No one cares about the man who disappears, the man who goes into the box. They care about the man who comes out the other side. |
| Ackerman | Pardon me. It's very rare to see... real magic. It's been many years since I've seen... | |
| Robert Angier | Are you interested in helping us? | |
| Achkerman | Yes. But you'll have to dress it up a little. Disguise it. Give them enough reason to doubt it. |
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Box Office
Domestic $53,089,891 Foreign +$56,586,420 - = total worldwide gross $109,676,311
- - a reported budget of $40,000,000
- = a 174.2% net profit of $69,676,311
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In today's dollars
Domestic $53,089,891 Foreign +56,586,420 - = total worldwide gross $109,676,311
- - a reported budget of $40,000,000
- = a 174.2% net profit of $69,676,311
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