Nikola Tesla: Nothing is impossible, Mr. Angier. What you want is simply expensive.
Alfred Borden: We both had half of a full life, which was somehow enough for us. But not for them.
Nikola Tesla: I apologize for leaving without saying goodbye, but I seem to have outstayed my welcome in Colorado. The truly extraordinary is not permitted in science and industry. Perhaps you'll find more luck in your field, where people are happy t...
Nikola Tesla: Things don't always go as planned, Mr. Angier. That's the beauty of science.
Gerald Root: You would drink, too, if you knew the world half as well as I do.
Olivia Wenscombe: You married her. You had a child with her. Alfred Borden: Yes. Part of me did. But the other part... the other part didn't. The part that found you, the part that's sitting here right now. Olivia Wenscombe: You could be in some othe...
Alfred Borden: Simple maybe, but not easy.
Alfred Borden: Does he enjoy taking his bows under the stage?
[after finding Gerald Root, Angier's new double] Cutter: He's perfect. He needs some work, but when I get through with him, he could be your brother. Robert Angier: I don't need him to be my brother, I need him to be *me*!
Cutter: Obsession is a young man's game
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.
Alfred Borden: See, sacrifice, Robert. That's the price of a good trick. But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?
Robert Angier: Which hat is mine? Nikola Tesla: They are all your hat, Mr. Angier.
Robert Angier: [to Borden] You always were the better magician. We both know that. Whatever your secret was, you have to agree, mine is better.
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.
Sarah: No more lies. No more secrets. Alfred Borden: Secrets are my life.
Robert Angier: Would I be the man in the box or the prestige?
Nikola Tesla: Exact science, Mr Angier, is not an exact science.
