The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Quotes

  • Burt Wonderstone: What the hell is a webisode?

    Rick the Implausible: Are you being serious? What's a webisode? It's... it's a show that you do on the internet, just like being on TV or having a movie except you don't go... through... you know all the hassle of... people seeing it.

  • Burt Wonderstone: Are you a lesbian, Nicole?

    Jane: Is every woman who doesn't sleep with you a lesbian?

    Burt Wonderstone: Oh, no, I have slept with plenty of lesbians.

  • Rance Holloway: I quit the business, I don't read the trades and I'm late for my coma.

  • Steve Gray: I take people's nightmares and turn them into dream-realities.

    Rance Holloway: What the fuck is a dream-reality?

  • Rance Holloway: God damn! That's the worst thing I ever saw in my life. And I saw my kids being born!

  • Burt Wonderstone: The life of a child magician.

    Jane: Yes. Try being a girl child magician. They called me Magic Bitch.

  • Jane: [after Gray burns his skin for a trick] That is a terrible trick to do for children. What if they try and copy you?

    Steve Gray: I'll sue them. It's my trick.

  • Burt Wonderstone: Anton, what could possibly go wrong?

    Anton Marvelton: Somebody could die, we can go to prison.

    Burt Wonderstone: See? When you say it out loud, it doesn't sound so bad.

  • Jane: I had imaginary friends, and even they were mean.

  • Burt Wonderstone: Now this is a classic.

    Steve Gray: Meaning: it's been done.

  • Steve Gray: Your skin makes me cry.

  • Steve Gray: Pretend I'm still here and tell me all about it.

  • Burt Wonderstone: [Wonderstone confronts Gray in a bar] Mr. Gray. What you do is not magic. It is monkey porn.

    Steve Gray: I understand. It's natural for a dying leaf to be frightened by the autumn wind.

  • Rance Holloway: [watching Steve Gray perform] This is what they call magic these days? This is some kind of terrible shit!

  • Jane: [Burt and Jane visit Rance in the hospital] What happened?

    Rance Holloway: I had a stroke. I don't recommend it, either. It's not as much fun as they tell you in the brochure.

  • Burt Wonderstone: Can I ask you something?

    Rance Holloway: If you feel you should.

  • Doug Munny: [asking Burt and Anton to update their act] You've been doing the same shit since I hired you. You even come on stage to that same god damn song.

    Burt Wonderstone: It's called "Abracadabra", and it is considered a modern classic.

    Doug Munny: It's shit.

  • Burt Wonderstone: [dismissive of Gray's "magic" act] Let me tell you about Steve Gray. All that guy does is mumble and cut himself. Anybody can do that. My niece does that.

  • Burt Wonderstone: Do you think this batch is ready?

    Anton Marvelton: I don't know. Check it.

    [Burt takes the lid off the pot and they immediately fall to the floor; after a few moments they stand up and approach the pot]

    Burt Wonderstone: Do you think this batch is ready?

    Anton Marvelton: I don't know. Check it.

    [Burt takes the lid off the pot and they immediately fall to the floor again]

  • [shooting his cable series, Steve Gray has taunted an audience member into punching him in the face]

    Anton Marvelton: Jesus. Was that guy a plant?

    Burt Wonderstone: That looked like a real punch.

  • [after splitting with Anton, Burt tries to do their act by himself]

    Doug Munny: That was shit! That was shit! That was shit!

    Burt Wonderstone: I thought it went pretty damn well.

    Doug Munny: It was a train wreck!

  • Burt Wonderstone: [for a trick, Steve Gray put a puppy in Burt's pants] He put a dog in my pants, Jane.

    Jane: I know.

    Burt Wonderstone: No one's ever done that to me before.

    Jane: I... hope not.

    Burt Wonderstone: He was teething!

  • Burt Wonderstone: [landing on Anton after falling out of the Hot Box] Ow, your face caught me right in the knee.

  • Rance Holloway: What you're feeling right now. That sense of awe. That sense of wonderment. That sense that anything in the universe is possible. That's why you became a magician. That's why I became a magician.

  • Young Burt: [in the school lunchroom] You're that kid who's always in the nurse's office, right?

    Young Anton: Not always. Sometimes they send me to the hospital.

    Young Burt: [he sees Anton taking out bottles of medication] What are those for?

    Young Anton: This one's for my allergies, and this one's for my asthma. And this is testosterone. My doctor says I'm dangerously close to being a girl.

  • Burt Wonderstone: [to a magician's assistant he has just fired] Go get a job at Cirque de So-Lame.

  • Anton Marvelton: I go to places where the children have neither food nor clean water and I give them magic.

    Reporter in Cambodia: Do you also give them food and clean water?

    Anton Marvelton: Well, no, I'm a magician - i bring magic.