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.
Robert Angier: Man's reach exceeds his imagination!
Sarah: No more lies. No more secrets.
Alfred Borden: Secrets are my life.
Gerald Root: Did you think you were unique, Mr Angier? I've been Caesar. I've played Faust. How hard could it possibly be to play the Great Danton?
Alfred Borden: He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.
Robert Angier: The man stole my life. I steal his trick.
Robert Angier: My passion is equal to the task.
Robert Angier: He lives his act.
Burly Stagehand: Hey you! Where do you think you're going?
Alfred Borden: I'm part of the bloody act, you fool!
Sarah: I know what you really are. And Alfred, I can't live like this.
Alfred Borden: Oh, you think I can live like this? You think I bloody enjoy living like this? We have a beautiful house, lovely little girl, we're married, what is so wrong with your life?
Judge: How large do you think this tank was?
Cutter: Eh... 400, 500 gallons, maybe.
Judge: And how do you think he was able to move ta tank of this size?
Cutter: He's the magician. Why don't you ask him?
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: Where are the wires?
Alley: Exactly.
Alfred Borden: You're not afraid to get your hands dirty anymore, are you?
Robert Angier: I never thought I'd find an answer at the bottom of a pint glass.
Cutter: Hasn't stopped you looking, has it?
[Borden is explaining how he used a double in his act]
Alfred Borden: What I didn't count on was that, when I incorporated this bloke into my act, he had complete power over me.
Gerald Root: Complete power, you say?
Olivia Wenscombe: He says that it's even between you.
Robert Angier: Even? My wife for a few of his fingers?
Robert Angier: I thought you said I'd have to get my hands dirty.
Cutter: Maybe someday you will; I just needed to know that you could.
Robert Angier: It was the greatest magic trick I've ever seen.
