Emma Thompson credited as playing...
Nurse Emily • Homeless Woman • The Angel
- Prior: [Wrestling the Angel] I will not let thee go except thou bless me! I will not let thee go except thou bless me! I will not let thee go except thou bless me!
- The Angel: You have prevailed Prophet. The choice is yours. Now release me; I have torn a muscle in my thigh.
- Prior: Big deal. My leg's been hurting for months.
- The Angel: You can't outrun your occupation, Jonah. Hiding from me one place, you'll find me in another. I-I-I-I stop down the road waiting for you. You know me, prophet. You're a battered heart bleeding life in the universe of wounds. Vessel of the book now, on you, in you, in your blood we write, have written, stasis. The end.
- The Angel: American prophet tonight you become American eye that pierceth dark, American heart hot full for truth.
- [after Prior Walter says he is distracted]
- The Angel: The stiffening of your penis is of no consequence!
- The Angel: I am the continental principality of America! I am a bird of prey! I will not be compelled!