The Prestige quotes
10 total quotesAlfred Borden
Cutter
Nikola Tesla
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Robert Angier
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You're familiar with the phrase "Man's reach exceeds his grasp"? It's a lie. Man's grasp exceeds his nerve. The only limits on scientific progress are those imposed by society. The first time I changed the world, I was hailed as a visionary. The second time I was asked politely to retire. The world only tolerates one change at a time. And so here I am. Enjoying my "retirement". Nothing is impossible, Mr. Angier, what you want is simply expensive. [1]
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You never understood... why we did this. The audience knows the truth. The world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through. But if you can fool them, even for a second... then you can make them wonder. And you get to see something very special. ... You really don't know. ... It was the look on their faces.
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Are you watching closely?
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Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it... because you're not really looking... You don't really want to know... You want to be fooled.
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A real magician tries to invent something new, that other magicians are gonna scratch their heads over.
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If anybody really believed the things I did on stage, they wouldn't clap, they'd scream.
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Would I be the man in the box? Or the man in the prestige?
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↑ http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/Prestige.pdf, 54-55
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Abracadabra.
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Great! Now all I have to do is keep my self stinking drunk and no one will be able to tell the difference.