“- Robert Angier: He's a dreadful magician.
- Cutter: No, he's a wonderful magician. He's a dreadful showman.”
Hugh Jackman - Robert Angier
Sir Michael Caine - Cutter

“- David: How are those maggots?
- Michael Emerson: Huh?
- David: Maggots, Michael. You're eating maggots. How do they taste?”
Kiefer Sutherland - David
Jason Patric - Michael

“Entertaining the rustics is not as difficult as I feared. Any simple, childish game seems to amuse them excessively.”

Frieda Inescort - Miss Bingley

“We will now present for your entertainment the most stupendous, magnificent, super-colossal spectacle! On this tiny, little, insignificant ball, we will construct for you a pyramid! Not of wood, not of stone... pyramid, of ponderous, pulsating, pulchritudinous pachyderms!”
Herman Bing - The Ringmaster

“What if God just put us here for His own entertainment? That's all we are - just something for Him to have a bit of a laugh at?”
David Thewlis - Johnny