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Nigel Powers: There are two kinds of people I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.

Austin Powers: What's wrong with your neck?

Nigel Powers: I took a Viagra, got stuck in me throat, I've had a stiff neck for hours.

Austin Powers: Your spy car's a Mini?

Nigel Powers: It's not the size mate, it's how you use it.

Alfred: Time to get up.

Bruce Wayne: Bats are nocturnal.

Alfred: That may be, but even for billionaire playboys, 3:00 is pushing it.

[Bruce Wayne is trapped under a burning beam.]

Alfred: What good are all those push-ups if you can't lift a bloody log?

Alfred: Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.

Alfred: Why bats, Master Wayne?

Bruce Wayne: Bats frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread.

Alfred: You start pretending to have fun, you might even have a little by accident.

Finn McMissile: My apologies, I haven't properly introduced myself. Finn McMissile, British intelligence.

Mater: Tow Mater, average intelligence.

Finn McMissile: Siddley. Paris, tout de suite.

Mater: Two of them sweets for me too.

Alfred: You are as precious to me as you were to your own mother and father. I swore to them that I would protect you, and I haven't.

Alfred: I won't bury you. I buried enough members of the Wayne family.

Bruce Wayne: I knew the mob wouldn't go down without a fight. But this is different. They crossed the line.

Alfred Pennyworth: You crossed the line first, sir. You hammered them. And in their desperation they turned to a man they didn't fully understand. Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Harvey Dent: You're Alfred, right?

Alfred Pennyworth: Yeah.

Harvey Dent: [about Rachel] Any psychotic ex-boyfriends I should know about?

Alfred Pennyworth: You have no idea.

Bruce Wayne: People are dying. What would you have me do?

Alfred Pennyworth: Endure. You can be the outcast. You can make the choice that no one else will face - the right choice. Gotham needs you.

Alfred Pennyworth: Know your limits, Master Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: Batman has no limits.

Alfred Pennyworth: So I supose they'll be arresting me for being your accomplice, sir.

Bruce Wayne: Accomplice?I'm gonna tell them the whole thing was your idea.

Bruce Wayne: Today you get to tell me 'I told you so'.

Alfred Pennyworth: Today, sir, I don't want to.

[They walk towards the lift for a few moments. Alfred leans toward Bruce.]

Alfred Pennyworth: ...But I did bloody tell you.

Bruce Wayne: The bandit in Burma. Did you catch him?

Alfred Pennyworth: Yes.

Bruce Wayne: How?

Alfred Pennyworth: We burned the forest down.

Frampton: You were in the Marines?

Harry Brown: Yes. Long time ago.

Harry Brown: I don't reckon you've got long. Seen that before. Gut wound. The slug's probably torn right through your liver. Mate of mine in Ulster got caught in sniper fire. Bullet blew his inside out. He screamed for a good 10 minutes. We couldn't send a medic in, the section was too hot. So we all took cover... and watched him die. I've never told that... to anyone... you should've called an ambulance... for the girl...

Frampton: It's not Northern Ireland Harry.

Harry Brown: No it's not. Those people were fighting for something; for a cause. To them out there, this is just entertainment.

Cobb: I'm just doing what you taught me.

Professor: I never taught you to be a thief.

Charlie Croker: You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

Hoagie Newcombe: I have an irresistible urge to kiss you, Ellen Brody.

Ellen Brody: Why?

Hoagie Newcombe: Because... it would not occur to you why.

Cutter: Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige".

Robert Angier: I never thought I'd find an answer at the bottom of a pint glass.

Cutter: Hasn't stopped you looking, has it?

Cutter: You settled on a name yet?

Robert Angier: Yes I have. The Great Danton.

Cutter: Bit old-fashioned isn't it?

Robert Angier: No. It's sophisticated.

Judge: How large do you think this tank was?

Cutter: Eh... 400, 500 gallons, maybe.

Judge: And how do you think he was able to move ta tank of this size?

Cutter: He's the magician. Why don't you ask him?

Robert Angier: He's a dreadful magician.

Cutter: No, he's a wonderful magician. He's a dreadful showman.