Memorable Quotes from
The Matrix
(1999)
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,
Neo. It's the question
that drives us. 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.
Morpheus:
If real is what you
can feel, smell, taste
and see, then 'real'
is simply electrical
signals interpreted by
your brain
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.
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:
Unfortunately, no one
can be told what the
Matrix is. You have to
see it for yourself.
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.
Agent Smith:
You're empty.
Neo:
So are you.
Morpheus:
Throughout human
history, we have been
dependent on machines
to survive. Fate, it
seems, is not without
a sense of irony.
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
tries a drink made by
Dozer and winces]
Cypher:
Good shit, huh? It's
good for two things:
degreasing engines and
killing brain cells.
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.
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.
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. The only way
you can survive is to
spread to another
area. There is another
organism on this
planet that follows
the same pattern. A
virus. Human beings
are a disease, a
cancer of this planet,
you are a plague, and
we are the cure.
Agent Jones:
Only human.
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.
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.
Morpheus:
Free your mind.
[Morpheus
jumps from one
building to another a
long distance away]
Neo:
Whoa.
Neo:
Why do my eyes hurt?
Morpheus:
You've never used them
before.
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.
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?
Morpheus:
Welcome to the real
world.
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.
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 did she tell you?
Morpheus:
That I would find the
One.
Oracle:
You're cuter than I
thought. I can see why
she likes you.
Neo:
Who?
Oracle:
Not too bright,
though.
Agent Smith:
You hear that Mr.
Anderson?... That is
the sound of
inevitability... It is
the sound of your
death... Goodbye, Mr.
Anderson...
Neo:
My name... is Neo.
Cypher:
I know what you're
thinking, 'cause right
now I'm thinking the
same thing. Actually,
I've been thinking it
ever since I got here:
Why oh why didn't I
take the BLUE pill?
Morpheus:
The pill you took is
part of a trace
program. It's designed
to disrupt your
input/output carrier
signal so we can
pinpoint your
location.
Neo:
What does that mean?
Cypher:
It means buckle your
seatbelt, Dorothy,
'cause Kansas is going
bye-bye.
Agent Smith:
Never send a human to
do a machine's job.
Neo:
What are you trying to
tell me? That I can
dodge bullets?
Morpheus:
No, Neo. I'm trying to
tell you that when
you're ready, you
won't have to.
Oracle:
OK, now I'm supposed
to say, "Hmm, that's
interesting, but..."
then you say...
Neo:
..."but what?"
Oracle:
But... you already
know what I'm going to
tell you.
Neo:
I'm not The One.
Oracle:
Sorry, kid. You got
the gift, but it looks
like you're waiting
for something.
Neo:
What?
Oracle:
Your next life, maybe.
Who knows? That's the
way these things go.
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.
Tank:
So what do you need?
Besides a miracle.
Neo:
Guns. Lots of guns.
Trinity:
Neo... nobody has ever
done this before.
Neo:
That's why it's going
to work.
[last
lines]
Neo:
I know you're out
there. I can feel you
now. I know that
you're afraid...
you're afraid of us.
You're afraid of
change. I don't know
the future. I didn't
come here to tell you
how this is going to
end. I came here to
tell you how it's
going to begin. I'm
going to hang up this
phone, and then I'm
going to show these
people what you don't
want them to see. I'm
going to show them a
world without you. A
world without rules
and controls, without
borders or boundaries.
A world where anything
is possible. Where we
go from there is a
choice I leave to you.
Rhineheart:
You have a problem
with authority, Mr.
Anderson. You believe
you are special, that
somehow the rules do
not apply to you.
Obviously, you are
mistaken.
Agent Smith:
It seems that you've
been living two lives.
One life, you're
Thomas A. Anderson,
program writer for a
respectable software
company. You have a
social security
number, pay your
taxes, and you... help
your landlady carry
out her garbage. The
other life is lived in
computers, where you
go by the hacker alias
"Neo" and are guilty
of virtually every
computer crime we have
a law for. One of
these lives has a
future, and one of
them does not.
Morpheus:
You've been living in
a dream world, Neo.
Neo:
I know kung fu.
Morpheus:
[eyeing
him, hand on chin]
Show me.
Morpheus:
How did I beat you?
Neo:
You... you're too
fast.
Morpheus:
Do you believe that my
being stronger or
faster has anything to
do with my muscles in
this place? Do you
think that's air
you're breathing now?
Lieutenant:
I think we can handle
one little girl. I
sent two units,
they're bringing her
down now.
Agent Smith:
No lieutenant, your
men are already dead.
Agent Smith:
Tell me, Mr. Anderson,
what good is a phone
call when you are
unable to speak?
Trinity:
Please Neo, you have
to trust me.
Neo:
Why?
Trinity:
Because you have been
down there Neo, you
know that road, you
know exactly where it
ends. And I know
that's not where you
want to be.
Morpheus:
What is "real"? How do
you define "real"?
Morpheus:
Welcome to the desert
of the real.
Neo:
You ever have that
feeling where you're
not sure if you're
awake or still
dreaming?
Choi:
All the time. It's
called mescaline, it's
the only way to fly.
Tank:
Here you go, buddy;
"Breakfast of
Champions."
Mouse:
If you close your
eyes, it almost feels
like you're eating
runny eggs.
Apoc:
Yeah, or a bowl of
snot.
Mouse:
Do you know what it
really reminds me of?
Tasty Wheat. Did you
ever eat Tasty Wheat?
Switch:
No, but technically,
neither did you.
Mouse:
That's exactly my
point. Exactly.
Because you have to
wonder: how do the
machines know what
Tasty Wheat tasted
like? Maybe they got
it wrong. Maybe what I
think Tasty Wheat
tasted like actually
tasted like oatmeal,
or tuna fish. That
makes you wonder about
a lot of things. You
take chicken, for
example: maybe they
couldn't figure out
what to make chicken
taste like, which is
why chicken tastes
like everything.
Neo:
Mr. Wizard. Get me the
hell out of here.
Agent Smith:
I hate this place.
This zoo. This prison.
This reality, whatever
you want to call it, I
can't stand it any
longer. It's the
smell, if there is
such a thing. I feel
saturated by it. I can
taste your stink and
every time I do, I
fear that I've somehow
been infected by it.
Agent Smith:
Did you know that the
first Matrix was
designed to be a
perfect human world?
Where none suffered,
where everyone would
be happy. It was a
disaster. No one would
accept the program.
Entire crops were
lost. Some believed we
lacked the programming
language to describe
your perfect world.
But I believe that, as
a species, human
beings define their
reality through
suffering and misery.
The perfect world was
a dream that your
primitive cerebrum
kept trying to wake up
from. Which is why the
Matrix was redesigned
to this: the peak of
your civilization.
Mouse:
To deny our own
impulses is to deny
the very thing that
makes us human.
Cypher:
You know, I know this
steak doesn't exist. I
know that when I put
it in my mouth, the
Matrix is telling my
brain that it is juicy
and delicious. After
nine years, you know
what I realize?
[Takes
a bite of steak]
Cypher:
Ignorance is bliss.
Morpheus:
You have to let it all
go, Neo. Fear, doubt,
and disbelief. Free
your mind.
Cypher:
I'm tired, Trinity.
Tired of this war,
tired of fighting...
I'm tired of the ship,
being cold, eating the
same goddamn goop
everyday...
Neo:
Am I dead?
Morpheus:
Far from it.
Neo:
What are you doing?
Trinity:
I'm going with you.
Neo:
No you're not.
Trinity:
No? Let me tell you
what I believe. I
believe that Morpheus
means more to me than
he does to you. I
believe if you are
really serious about
rescuing him, you are
going to need my help.
And since I am the
ranking officer on
this ship, if you
don't like it... I
believe you can go to
hell. Because you're
not going anywhere
else. Tank, load us
up.
[first
lines]
[phone
rings]
Cypher:
Yeah.
Trinity:
Is everything in
place?
Cypher:
You weren't supposed
to relieve me.
Trinity:
I know, but I felt
like taking a shift.
Cypher:
You like him, don't
you? You like watching
him.
Trinity:
Don't be ridiculous.
Cypher:
We're gonna kill him.
You understand that?
Trinity:
Morpheus believes he
is the one.
Cypher:
Do you?
Trinity:
It doesn't matter what
I believe.
Cypher:
You don't, do you?
Trinity:
Did you hear that?
Cypher:
Hear what?
Trinity:
Are you sure this line
is clean?
Cypher:
Yeah, of course I'm
sure.
Trinity:
I better go.
Agent Brown:
She got out.
Agent Smith:
Doesn't matter.
Agent Brown:
The informant is real.
Agent Smith:
Yes.
Agent Jones:
We have the name of
their next target.
Agent Brown:
The name is Neo.
Agent Smith:
We'll need a search
running.
Agent Jones:
It has already begun.
Neo:
What is happening to
me?
Morpheus:
You are the One, Neo.
You see, you may have
spent the last few
years looking for me,
but I have spent my
entire life looking
for you.
Choi:
Hallelujah. You're my
savior, man. My own
personal Jesus Christ.
Neo:
If you get caught
using that...
Choi:
I know. This never
happened. You don't
exist.
Neo:
Right.
[Neo
receives a cell phone
in an overnight-mail
envelope. As soon as
he's holding it, it
rings]
Neo:
Hello?
Morpheus:
Hello, Neo. Do you
know who this is?
Neo:
Morpheus?
Morpheus:
Yes. I've been looking
for you, Neo. I don't
know if you're ready
to see what I want to
show you, but
unfortunately, you and
I have run out of
time. They're coming
for you, Neo, and I
don't know what
they're going to do.
Neo:
Who's coming for me?
Morpheus:
Stand up and see for
yourself.
Neo:
What, right now?
Morpheus:
Yes, now.
Switch:
Our way... or the
highway.
Trinity:
Dodge this.
Morpheus:
This is your last
chance. After this,
there is no turning
back. You take the
blue pill - the story
ends, you wake up in
your bed and believe
whatever you want to
believe. You take the
red pill - you stay in
Wonderland and I show
you how deep the
rabbit-hole goes.
Tank:
Door on your left.
[Neo
goes right]
Tank:
Your other left.
Cypher:
Neo. You scared the
b'Jesus out of me.
Cypher:
No. I don't believe
it.
Tank:
Believe it or not, you
piece of shit, you're
still gonna burn.
Neo:
Okey dokey... free my
mind. Right, no
problem, free my mind,
free my mind, no
problem, right...
Agent Smith:
The great Morpheus. We
meet at last.
Morpheus:
And you are?
Agent Smith:
A Smith. Agent Smith.
Morpheus:
You all look the same
to me.
Agent Smith:
I'm going to enjoy
watching you die, Mr.
Anderson.
Morpheus:
I've seen an agent
punch through a
concrete wall. Men
have emptied entire
clips at them and hit
nothing but air, yet
their strength and
their speed are still
based in a world that
is built on rules.
Because of that, they
will never be as
strong or as fast as
you can be.
Neo:
I used to eat there.
Really good noodles.
Tank:
We're supposed to
start with these
operation programs
first. That's major
boring shit. Let's do
something a little
more fun. How about...
combat training.
Neo:
Ju jitsu? I'm gonna
learn Ju jitsu.
[Tank
winks and loads the
program]
Neo:
Holy shit!
Tank:
Hey Mikey, I think he
likes it. How about
some more?
Neo:
Hell, yes. Hell yeah.
Cypher:
All I see now is
blonde, brunette,
redhead.
Oracle:
Do you know what that
means?
[points
to a banner]
Oracle:
It means know thy
self. I wanna tell you
a little secret, being
the one is just like
being in love. No one
needs to tell you you
are in love, you just
know it, through and
through.
Trinity:
Neo, I'm not afraid
anymore. The Oracle
told me that I would
fall in love and that
that man... the man
that I loved would be
The One. So you see,
you can't be dead. You
can't be... because I
love you. You hear me?
I love you.
[Neo's
vital signs return]
Trinity:
Now get up!
Cypher:
Jesus. What a
mind-job.
Trinity:
What's he doing?
Morpheus:
He's beginning to
believe.
Morpheus:
To your left there is
a window: open it...
use the scaffold to
get to the roof.
Neo:
No way. No way. This
is crazy.
Morpheus:
There are two ways out
of that building: one
is that scaffold, the
other is in their
custody. You take a
chance either way: I
leave it to you.
Morpheus:
Were you listening to
me, Neo? Or were you
looking at the woman
in the red dress?
[talking
to the unconscious
Morpheus]
Cypher:
If you'd told us the
truth, we would've
told you to shove that
red pill right up your
ass.
[Cypher
has betrayed the crew
and is pulling their
plugs one by one]
Cypher:
By the way, if you
have something
terribly important to
say to Switch, I'd
suggest you say it
now.
Trinity:
Oh, please God...
Switch:
Not like this. Not
like this.
[Cypher
pulls her plug]
Cypher:
Too late!
Choi:
It just sounds to me
like you need to
unplug, man.
Agent Smith:
As you can see, we've
had our eye on you for
some time now, Mr.
Anderson.
Morpheus:
What is the Matrix?
Control. The Matrix is
a computer-generated
dream world built to
keep us under control
in order to change a
human being into this.
[holds
up a Duracell battery]
Neo:
No, I don't believe
it. It's not possible.
Morpheus:
I didn't say it would
be easy, Neo. I just
said it would be the
truth.
Morpheus:
We've done it,
Trinity. We've found
him.
Trinity:
I hope you're right.
Morpheus:
You don't have to
hope. I *know* it.
Rhineheart:
The time has come to
make a choice, Mr.
Anderson. Either you
choose to be at your
desk on time from this
day forth, or you
choose to find
yourself another job.
Switch:
The digital pimp at
work.
Agent Smith:
Dammit.
Agent Brown:
The trace was
completed.
Agent Jones:
We have their
position.
Agent Brown:
Sentinels are standing
by.
Agent Jones:
Order the strike.
Agent Smith:
They are not out yet.
[Neo
walks through a metal
detector in the lobby
and is approached by a
security guard after
it goes off]
Security guard: Could
you please remove any
metallic items you may
be carrying, keys,
loose change...
[Neo
opens his trench coat
to reveal dozens of
guns underneath]
Security guard: Holy
shit!
[Neo
knocks the guard down
and shoots the other
guards]
[after
landing the
Nebuchaunezzer to hide
from the Sentinels]
Morpheus:
How we doing Tank?
[Tank
types on the keyboard
and the main power
goes off]
Tank:
Main power offline.
EMP armed...
[Tank
opens the cover to the
EMP switch]
Tank:
and ready.
Neo:
EMP?
Trinity:
Electro-Magnetic
Pulse, disables any
electrical system
within the blast
radius, only weapon we
have against the
machines.
Morpheus:
Quiet.
Agent Smith:
Find them and destroy
them
[Agent
Smith has shot Neo
with several bullets]
Agent Smith:
Check him.
[Agent
Brown feels Neo's
pulse]
Agent Brown:
He's gone.
Agent Smith:
Good bye, Mr Anderson.
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