The Matrix Quotes
Agent Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more that your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?
Neo: Because I choose to.
Neo: Because I choose to.
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Cypher: All I do is what he tells me to do. If I had to choose between that and the Matrix, I'd choose the Matrix.
Trinity: The Matrix isn't real.
Cypher: I disagree, Trinity. I think that the Matrix can be more real than this world. All I do is pull a plug here, but there... you have to watch Apoc die.
Trinity: The Matrix isn't real.
Cypher: I disagree, Trinity. I think that the Matrix can be more real than this world. All I do is pull a plug here, but there... you have to watch Apoc die.
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Seraph: Good. You do not truly know someone until you fight them. Come this way.
Ballard: Only thing you know about me is I was about to kick yo ass!
Ballard: Only thing you know about me is I was about to kick yo ass!
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Trinity: My name's Trinity.
Neo: *The* Trinity? Who cracked the IRS d-base?
Trinity: That was a long time ago.
Neo: Jesus...
Trinity: What?
Neo: I just thought... you were a guy.
Trinity: Most guys do.
Neo: *The* Trinity? Who cracked the IRS d-base?
Trinity: That was a long time ago.
Neo: Jesus...
Trinity: What?
Neo: I just thought... you were a guy.
Trinity: Most guys do.
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Trinity : I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.
Neo : What is the Matrix?
Trinity : The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
Neo : What is the Matrix?
Trinity : The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
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[ Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one ]
Neo : Whoa. Déjà vu. [ Everyone freezes right in their tracks ]
Trinity : What did you just say?
Neo : Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu.
Trinity : What did you see?
Cypher : What happened?
Neo : A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
Trinity : How much like it? Was it the same cat?
Neo : It might have been. I'm not sure.
Morpheus : Switch! Apoc!
Neo : What is it?
Trinity : A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
Neo : Whoa. Déjà vu. [ Everyone freezes right in their tracks ]
Trinity : What did you just say?
Neo : Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu.
Trinity : What did you see?
Cypher : What happened?
Neo : A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
Trinity : How much like it? Was it the same cat?
Neo : It might have been. I'm not sure.
Morpheus : Switch! Apoc!
Neo : What is it?
Trinity : A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
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[ on the war that devastated the Real World ]
Morpheus : We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.
Morpheus : We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.
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Morpheus : If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
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Morpheus : What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on. Stop trying to hit me and hit me.
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Neo : I thought it wasn't real
Morpheus : Your mind makes it real
Neo : If you're killed in the matrix, you die here?
Morpheus : The body cannot live without the mind
Morpheus : Your mind makes it real
Neo : If you're killed in the matrix, you die here?
Morpheus : The body cannot live without the mind
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Morpheus : Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
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Morpheus : The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. [ Neo's eyes suddenly wander towards a woman in a red dress ]
Morpheus : Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
Neo : I was...
Morpheus : [ gestures with one hand ] Look again. [ the woman in the red dress is now Agent Smith, pointing a gun at Neo's head; Neo ducks ]
Morpheus : Freeze it. [ Everybody and everything besides Neo and Morpheus freezes in time ]
Neo : This... this isn't the Matrix?
Morpheus : No. It is another training program designed to teach you one thing: if you are not one of us, you are one of them.
Morpheus : Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
Neo : I was...
Morpheus : [ gestures with one hand ] Look again. [ the woman in the red dress is now Agent Smith, pointing a gun at Neo's head; Neo ducks ]
Morpheus : Freeze it. [ Everybody and everything besides Neo and Morpheus freezes in time ]
Neo : This... this isn't the Matrix?
Morpheus : No. It is another training program designed to teach you one thing: if you are not one of us, you are one of them.
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Morpheus : Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
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Agent Smith : We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start. All that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.
Neo : Yeah. Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. But I think I may have a better one. How about, I give you the finger [ He does ]
Neo : and you give me my phone call.
Neo : Yeah. Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. But I think I may have a better one. How about, I give you the finger [ He does ]
Neo : and you give me my phone call.
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[ Neo tries a drink made by Dozer and winces ]
Cypher : Good shit, huh? It's good for two things: degreasing engines and killing brain cells.
Cypher : Good shit, huh? It's good for two things: degreasing engines and killing brain cells.
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Spoon boy : Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo : What truth?
Spoon boy : There is no spoon.
Neo : There is no spoon?
Spoon boy : Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Neo : What truth?
Spoon boy : There is no spoon.
Neo : There is no spoon?
Spoon boy : Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
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Agent Smith : I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
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Morpheus : I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?
Neo : You could say that.
Morpheus : I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo : No.
Morpheus : Why not?
Neo : Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus : I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo : The Matrix.
Morpheus : Do you want to know what it is?
Neo : Yes.
Morpheus : The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo : What truth?
Morpheus : That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.
Neo : You could say that.
Morpheus : I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo : No.
Morpheus : Why not?
Neo : Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus : I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo : The Matrix.
Morpheus : Do you want to know what it is?
Neo : Yes.
Morpheus : The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo : What truth?
Morpheus : That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.
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Morpheus : I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
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Morpheus : Free your mind. [ Morpheus jumps from one building to another a long distance away ]
Neo : Whoa.
Neo : Whoa.
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Morpheus : Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
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Morpheus : Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
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Cypher : All I do is what he tells me to do. If I had to choose between that and the Matrix, I'd choose the Matrix.
Trinity : The Matrix isn't real.
Cypher : I disagree, Trinity. I think that the Matrix can be more real than this world. All I do is pull a plug here, but there... you have to watch Apoc die.
Trinity : The Matrix isn't real.
Cypher : I disagree, Trinity. I think that the Matrix can be more real than this world. All I do is pull a plug here, but there... you have to watch Apoc die.
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Oracle : I'd ask you to sit down, but, you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the vase.
Neo : What vase? [ Neo turns to look for a vase, and as he does, he knocks over a vase of flowers, which shatters on the floor ]
Oracle : That vase.
Neo : I'm sorry...
Oracle : I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it.
Neo : How did you know?
Oracle : Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?
Neo : What vase? [ Neo turns to look for a vase, and as he does, he knocks over a vase of flowers, which shatters on the floor ]
Oracle : That vase.
Neo : I'm sorry...
Oracle : I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it.
Neo : How did you know?
Oracle : Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?
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