Kip Pardue credited as playing...
Edmund Bigelow
- Edmund Bigelow: Now I live backstage. From my spot here, I can make people dance to whatever tune I want them to.When they come to my house, I hold their lives in my hands. They don't have to see me, and I don't have to parade. I know what's inside me, and whenever I want, I can see everything that's inside of them, if you catch my drift. You wonder how in the hell I got to this place. You should be asking, what took me so long.
- Dr. Chong: Now here is where you come in. I had a girl, one that left me a week before, a real thoroughbred of a girl, had it in for one of my best clients. This guy put so much money on her, it was like he had her on layaway already, so I cut her loose with my blessing.
- Edmund Bigelow: And her name is Maggie, right?
- Dr. Chong: Merry Christmas, Scoop. From here on, find your own way.
- Edmund Bigelow: We met at church.
- Maggie: That was a joke that I made up on the spot, remember? It's like our lives started that night. And before that, you were just a whore, and I was a bad man. And our lives now are just an illusion.
- Montag the Magnificent: Ling Chi: Death by a thousand cuts. I will cut you piece by piece. I will open you up, then you can see I am not the magician. I am the trick. Like you, I am a prop to be used for this final trick. I will let out what the magician added to you, and once you are truly opened up, you can put the pieces together. In this world, there are two kinds of people: fools and visionaries. The fool sees the solution, the magician intends him to see. Which one are you? The fool or the visionary?
- Edmund Bigelow: The visionary. Escaped visionary. Go ahead. Cut me more, because the more you cut, the more I bleed, and the more I bleed, the more you lose your hold on me.
- Montag the Magnificent: That... That was just a means to an end. But you and what you have accomplished, that you have always had within you. The only reason that you haven't seen it is because magic is all about misdirection. But you don't have direction.
- Edmund Bigelow: I think now I do.