Great! Now all I have to do is keep my self stinking drunk and no one will be able to tell the difference.
Alfred Borden
Christian Bale · 7 quotes
Robert Angier
Hugh Jackman · 7 quotes
Borden
Christian Bale · 6 quotes
Cutter
Michael Caine · 6 quotes
Nikola Tesla
David Bowie · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Robert Angier & Cutter (2)
The Prestige quotes
Page 2 of 2I hope you enjoy the mountain air, this will take some time.
If anybody really believed the things I did on stage, they wouldn't clap, they'd scream.
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.
The sacrifice... that's the price of a good trick.
The secret impresses no one. The trick you use it for is everything.
We both had half of a full life, which was somehow enough for us. But not for them.
Would I be the man in the box? Or the man in the prestige?
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.
You went halfway around the world. You spent a fortune. You did terrible things. Really terrible things, Robert. And all for nothing.
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]