Robert Angier Quotes

Nikola Tesla : Mr. Angier, have you considered the cost of such a machine?
Robert Angier : Price is not an object.
Nikola Tesla : Perhaps not, but have you considered the *cost*?
Robert Angier : I'm not sure I follow.
Nikola Tesla : Go home. Forget this thing. I can recognize an obsession, no good will come of it.
Robert Angier : Why, haven't good come of your obsessions?
Nikola Tesla : Well, at first. But I followed them too long. I'm their slave... and one day they'll choose to destroy me.
Robert Angier : If you understand an obsession, then you know you won't change my mind.

But here, at the turn, I must leave you Borden. Yes, you, Borden, sitting there in your cell, awaiting your death. For my murder.

The man stole my life. I steal his trick.

My passion is equal to the task.

It was the greatest magic trick I've ever seen.

No one cares about the man in the box, the man who disappears.

You always were the better magician. We both know that. Whatever your secret was, you have to agree, mine is better.

Man's reach exceeds his imagination!

Would I be the man in the box or the prestige?

Olivia Wenscombe : He says that it's even between you.
Robert Angier : Even? My wife for a few of his fingers?

Robert Angier : Where are the wires?
Alley : Exactly.

He lives his act.

Robert Angier : I haven't had a chance yet to compliment you on your beautiful theatre.
Merrit : It'll be a lot more beautiful when it's full, Mr Angier.

Robert Angier : So what's going to be the climax of our show?
Merrit : Show? You don't have a show.

Robert Angier : In my travels, I have seen the future... And it is a strange future indeed. The world, ladies and gentleman, is on the brink of new, terrifying possibilities.
Robert Angier : What you are about to witness is not magic. It is purely science. I would like to invite you to come up on stage now so that you can examine the machine for yourselves.
Robert Angier : Man's reach exceeds his imagination!

Robert Angier : He had a new trick today.
Olivia Wenscombe : Was it good?
Robert Angier : It was the most amazing magic trick I've ever seen.

Olivia Wenscombe : I have fallen in love with him, Robert.
Robert Angier : Then I know how hard this has been for you.

Olivia Wenscombe : Why would he trust me?
Robert Angier : Because you're going to tell him the truth.

Julia McCullough : I thought up a name for you: The Great Danton. Do you like it? It's sophisticated.
Robert Angier : It's French.