- Anthony Blake: Harry's death was no accident. He was murdered in an incredibly cruel way, and that's very personal to me, Max, and nobody's going to keep me from getting involved.
- Brooks Rosenthal: [to his production crew] That's a wrap, gentlemen. You'll be home so early your wives won't even know who you are.
- Dominick: You want to know what I think about you doing this trick, Tony?
- Anthony Blake: You already told me, Dominick, in a language I wouldn't care to have you repeat.
- Max Braden: Have you ever noticed that people who deal in figures all day have very little capacity for human insight?
- Anthony Blake: Umm-hmm.
- Jack Quinn: You know, special effects is a kind of magic. We do all kinds of crazy things. We rig rooms so they turn upside-down. We fly people. Every now and then, we vanish a rabbit.
- Anthony Blake: You know, when I was a little boy, I used to feel like everybody else that Max was a combination of Hitler and Napoleon. Then he picked me up and he bounced me on his shoulders. One day he and even carried me all over the studio. And he made me feel very special.