Neo Quotes in The Matrix (1999)

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 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.

[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.

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.

Oracle: You're cuter than I thought. I can see why she likes you.

Neo: Who?

Oracle: Not too bright, though.

Neo: Why do my eyes hurt?

Morpheus: You've never used them before.

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: 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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

Morpheus: The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTU's of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields - endless fields - where human beings are no longer born, we are grown. For the longest time I wouldn't believe it, and then I saw the fields with my own eyes. Watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living.

Morpheus: And standing there, facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth. 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 copper-top D cell 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.

Neo: I know kung fu.

Morpheus: [eyeing him, hand on chin] Show me.

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.

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?

Neo: Yeah. That sounds like a really good deal. But I got a better one. How about... I give you the finger... and you give me my phone call?

Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson... you disappoint me.

Neo: You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want my phone call.

Agent Smith: Tell me, Mr. Anderson... what good is a phone call... if you're unable to speak?

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 fasten your seat belt Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

Agent Smith: You're empty.

Neo: So are you.

Morpheus: Free your mind.

[Morpheus jumps from one building to another a long distance away]

Neo: Whoa.

Tank: Neo, this has to be done.

Neo: Does it? I don't know. This can't be just coincidence. It can't be.

Tank: What are you talking about?

Neo: The Oracle. She told me this would happen. She told me that I would have to make a choice.

Trinity: What choice?

[Neo walks away]

Trinity: What are you doing?

Neo: I'm going in.

Trinity: No, you're not.

Neo: I have to.

Trinity: Neo, Morpheus sacrificed himself so we could get you out. There is no way you're going back in.

Neo: Morpheus did what he did because he believes something I'm not.

Trinity: What?

Neo: I'm not the one, Trinity. The Oracle hit me with that too.

Trinity: No, you have to be.

Neo: I'm sorry, I'm not. I'm just another guy.

Trinity: No, Neo, that's not true. It can't be true.

Neo: Why?

[no response, Neo walks away again]

Tank: Neo, this is loco. They've got Morpheus in a military-controlled building. Even if you somehow got inside, those are agents holding him. Three of them. I want Morpheus back too but what you're talking about is suicide.

Neo: I know that's what it looks like, but it's not. I can't explain to you why it's not. Morpheus believes in something and he was ready to give his life, I understand that now. That's why I have to go.

Tank: Why?

Neo: Because I believe in something.

Trinity: What?

Neo: I believe I can bring him back.

Morpheus: We've survived by hiding from them, by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors, they are holding all the keys. Which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them.

Neo: Someone?

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

Morpheus: I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he's expecting to wake up. Ironically, this is not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?

Neo: No.

Morpheus: Why not?

Neo: 'Cause I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.

Morpheus: 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 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: Mr. Wizard, get me the hell out of here!

[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.

Neo: I used to eat there. Really good noodles.

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.

Neo: What did she tell you?

Morpheus: That I would find the One.

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: Okey dokey... free my mind. Right, no problem, free my mind, free my mind, no problem, right...

[Neo runs down the alleyway and gets trapped]

Neo: Help!, need a little help!

Tank: The door.

[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.

Neo: Am I dead?

Morpheus: Far from it.

The Architect: You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated.

Neo: Bullshit.

[the monitors respond the same]

The Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.

Councillor Harmann: Down here, sometimes I think about all those people still plugged into the Matrix and when I look at these machines I... I can't help thinking that in a way... we are plugged into them.

Neo: But we control these machines; they don't control us.

Councillor Harmann: Of course not. How could they? The idea is pure nonsense. But... it does make one wonder... just... what is control?

Neo: If we wanted, we could shut these machines down.

Councillor Harmann: [Of] course. That's it. You hit it. That's control, isn't it? If we wanted we could smash them to bits. Although, if we did, we'd have to consider what would happen to our lights, our heat, our air...

Neo: So we need machines and they need us, is that your point, Councilor?

Councillor Harmann: No. No point. Old men like me don't bother with making points. There's no point.

Neo: Is that why there are no young men on the council?

Councillor Harmann: Good point.

The Architect: Hello, Neo.

Neo: Who are you?

The Architect: I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

Agent Smith: I killed you, Mr. Anderson. I watched you die... with a certain satisfaction, I might add. Then something happened. something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mr. Anderson. After that, I understood the rules, I knew what I was supposed to do, but I didn't. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey. And now, here I stand because of you, Mr. Anderson. Because of you, I'm no longer an Agent of this system. Because of you, I've changed. I'm unplugged. A new man, so to speak. Like you, apparently, free.

Neo: Congratulations.

Agent Smith: Thank you.

Neo: If I were you, I would hope we don't meet again.

The Architect: We won't.

The Oracle: Do you see her die?

Neo: No.

The Oracle: You have the sight now, Neo. You are looking at the world without time.

Neo: Then why can't I see what happens to her?

The Oracle: We can never see past the choices we don't understand.

Neo: Are you saying I have to choose whether Trinity lives or dies?

The Oracle: No, you've already made the choice. Now you have to understand it.

Neo: No. I can't do that. I won't.

The Oracle: Well, you have to.

Neo: Why?

The Oracle: Because you're the One.

The Oracle: Candy?

Neo: Do you already know if I'm going to take it?

The Oracle: Wouldn't be much of an Oracle if I didn't.

[after first meeting with The Merovingian]

Neo: Well, that didn't go so well.

Morpheus: Are you Certain the Oracle didn't say anything else?

Neo: Yes.

Trinity: Maybe we did something wrong.

Neo: Or didn't do something.

Morpheus: No, what happened, happened and couldn't have happened any other way.

Neo: How do you know?

Morpheus: We are still alive.

The Architect: The function of the One is now to return to the source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the prime program. After which you will be required to select from the matrix 23 individuals, 16 female, 7 male, to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race.

Neo: You won't let it happen, you can't. You need human beings to survive.

The Architect: There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.

[about Merovingian]

Neo: What does he want?

The Oracle: What do all men with power want? More power.

Neo: But if you already know, how can I make a choice?

The Oracle: Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand *why* you made it. I thought you'd have figured that out by now.

The Architect: As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly ninety-nine percent of the test subjects accepted the program provided they were given a choice - even if they were only aware of it at a near-unconscious level. While this solution worked, it was fundamentally flawed, creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that, if left unchecked, might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those who refused the program, while a minority, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.

Neo: This is about Zion.

Neo: Why am I here?

The Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.

Neo: You haven't answered my question.

The Architect: Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others.

Seraph: The Oracle has many enemies, I had to be sure.

Neo: Of what?

Seraph: That you were The One.

Neo: You could've just asked.

Seraph: You do not truly know someone until you fight them.

Neo: Trinity, I know you can hear me. I'm not letting go. I can't. I love you too damn much.

Link: [Shocked with astonishment after Neo brought Trinity back to life] I can't take this.

[Johnson blocks Neo's punch]

Neo: Hmm, upgrades.

Neo: I can't lose you.

Trinity: You're not going to lose me.

[she takes his hand]

Trinity: You feel this? I'm never letting go.

Neo: I suppose the most obvious question is, how can I trust you?

The Oracle: Bingo. It is a pickle. No doubt about it. The bad news is there's no way if you can really know whether I'm here to help you or not, so it's really up to you. You just have to make up you on damned mind to either accept what I'm going to tell you, or reject it.

Neo: Are there other programs like you?

The Oracle: Oh, well, not like me. But... look, see those birds? At some point a program was written to govern them. A program was written to watch over the trees, and the wind, the sunrise, and sunset. There are programs running all over the place. The ones doing their job, doing what they were meant to do, are invisible. You'd never even know they were here. But the other ones, well, we hear about them all the time.

Neo: I've never heard of them.

The Oracle: Oh, of course you have. Every time you've heard someone say they saw a ghost, or an angel. Every story you've ever heard about vampires, werewolves, or aliens, is the system assimilating some program that's doing something they're not supposed to be doing.

Neo: There are only two possible explanations: either no one told me, or no one knows.

Seraph: You seek the Oracle.

Neo: Who are you?

Seraph: I am Seraph. I can take you to her. But first, I must apologize.

Neo: For what?.

Seraph: For this.

[fighting ensues]

The Oracle: So, let's get the obvious stuff out of the way.

Neo: You're not human, are you?

The Oracle: It's tough to get any more obvious than that.

Neo: Why are you here?

The Oracle: Same reason. I love candy.

Neo: Choice, the problem is choice.

Neo: Hiya, fellas.

Agent Jackson: It's him.

Agent Thompson: The anomaly.

Agent Jackson: Do we proceed?

Agent Thompson: Yes...

Agent Jackson: ...he is still...

Agent Johnson: ...only human.

Neo: Link, where am I?

Link: You're not gonna believe this, but you're in the mountains.

[Neo looks around. He is surrounded by grassy hills and snow-topped peaks]

Neo: [Sarcastically] Really?

Neo: Why don't you tell me what's on your mind, Councillor?

Councillor Harmann: There is so much in this world that I do not understand. See that machine? It has something to do with recycling our water supply. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But I do understand the reason for it to work. I have absolutely no idea how you are able to do some of the things you do, but I believe there's a reason for that as well. I only hope we understand that reason before it's too late.

Neo: How long to recharge the "Neb"?

Trinity: 24, maybe 30, hours.

Neo: Some people go their entire lives without hearing news that good.

Neo: [to Trinity and Morpheus] Get him out of here, I'll handle them.

Merovingian: 'Handle us'? You'll *handle* us? You know, your predecessors had much more respect!

Persephone: I'll give you what you want, but you have to give me something.

Neo: What?

Persephone: A kiss.

Trinity: Excuse me?

The Architect: As you were undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly is systemic, creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.

Neo: [All from the monitors] You can't control me! I'll smash you to fucking bits! YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD! FUCK YOU! I'll fucking kill you! I can say whatever I want! You can't make me do that! You old, white, prick!

Trinity: They need you.

Neo: I need YOU.

Neo: Are you a programmer?

[Seraph shakes his head no]

Neo: Then what are you?

Seraph: [pauses, then faces Neo] I protect that which matters most.

Neo: [kisses Trinity] I missed you.

Trinity: I can tell.

Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson, welcome back. Surprised to see me?

Neo: No.

Agent Smith: Then you're aware of it?

Neo: Of what?

Agent Smith: Our connection.

Morpheus: Smith?

[Neo nods his head, winded]

Morpheus: Now there's more than one of him?

Neo: A lot more.

Link: But how? How can that be possible?

Neo: I don't know. Somehow he's found a way to copy himself.

Morpheus: Was that what he was doing to you?

Neo: I don't know what he was doing. But I remember what it felt like.

Trinity: What?

Neo: It felt like I was back in that hallway... it felt like dying.

Morpheus: What can you see, Neo?

Neo: It's strange... the code is somehow different.

Morpheus: Encrypted?

Neo: Maybe.

Trinity: Is that good for us, or bad for us?

Neo: Well, it looks like every floor is wired with explosives.

Trinity: Bad for us.

Morpheus: Here we go.

Merovingian: And now I have some real business to attend to, so I will say adieu and goodbye...

[They all stand]

Neo: This isn't over.

Merovingian: Oh, yes it is. The Keymaker is mine and I see no reason to give him up... No reason at all...

Neo: What happens if I fail?

The Oracle: Then Zion will fall.

Neo: I just haven't been able to sleep much.

Councillor Harmann: It's a good sign.

Neo: Of what?

Councillor Harmann: That you are, in fact, still human.

Neo: What happened?

Trinity: Morpheus went to the Oracle. After that everything changed.

Neo: Yeah. She can do that.

Merovingian: Something to eat? Drink? Of course these things are contrivances, like so much here, for the sake of appearances.

Neo: No thankyou.

Merovingian: Yes, of course. Who has time? Who has time? But then if we never *take* time, how can we have time?

The Architect: It is interesting reading your reactions. Your five predecessors were, by design, based on a similar predication: a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species, facilitating the function of the One. While the others experienced this in a general way, your experience is far more specific. Vis-à-vis: love.

Neo: Trinity.

[the monitors show images of Trinity]

The Architect: Apropos, she entered the Matrix to save your life at the cost of her own.

Neo: No...

The Architect: Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed, and the Anomaly revealed as both beginning... and end.

The Architect: If I am the father of the Matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.

Neo: The Oracle.

The Architect: [condescending] Please.

Link: Here they come. Let's go, Morpheous.

Neo: We won't make it.

Trinity: We have to try. Come on!

Neo: Something's different. I can feel them.

Trinity: [Neo raised his right arm, stopped five charging sentinels and passed out] Neo!

Agent Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why, why? Why do you do it? Why, why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting... for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. 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: I just have never...

Rama-Kandra: ...heard a program speak of love?

Neo: It's a... human emotion.

Rama-Kandra: No, it is a word. What matters is the connection the word implies. I see that you are in love. Can you tell me what you would give to hold on to that connection?

Neo: Anything.

Rama-Kandra: Then perhaps the reason you're here is not so different from the reason I'm here.

Trinity: Six hours ago, I was ready to give my life for you. Do you know what has changed in the last six hours?

Neo: No.

Trinity: Nothing.

[as the machine drones swarm around him]

Neo: I only ask to say what I've come here to say. After that, do what you want and I won't try to stop you.

[the drones withdraw and resolve into a face]

Deus Ex Machina: Speak.

Neo: The program Smith has grown beyond your control. Soon he will spread through this city, as he spread through the matrix. You cannot stop him. But I can.

Deus Ex Machina: [shouting] WE DON'T NEED YOU! WE NEED NOTHING!

[the drones swarm around Neo again]

Neo: If that's true, then I've made a mistake, and you should kill me now.

[the drones swarm... and draw back into the face again]

Deus Ex Machina: What do you want?

Neo: Peace.

Deus Ex Machina: And if you fail?

Neo: I won't.

Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson. Welcome back, we missed you.

[Agent Smith pauses and looks around at the multitude of clones he has created]

Agent Smith: Like what I've done with the place?

Neo: It ends tonight.

Agent Smith: I know it does, I've seen it. That's why the rest of me is just going to enjoy the show because we already know that I'm the one that beats you.

[after Neo ends up back at the same subway stop after running down the track]

Neo: Shit.

Neo: It's been an honor, sir.

Morpheus: No. The honor is still mine.

Agent Smith: Get away from me!

Neo: What are you afraid of?

Agent Smith: It's a trick.

Neo: You were right Smith. You're always right. It was inevitable.

Rama-Kandra: That is our karma.

Neo: You believe in karma?

Rama-Kandra: Karma's a word. Like "love". A way of saying 'what I am here to do.' I do not resent my karma - I'm grateful for it. Grateful for my wonderful wife, for my beautiful daughter. They are gifts. And so I do what I must do to honour them.

Roland: This is asinine. If you want to kill yourself, go ahead, but do it without wasting one of our ships.

Neo: You have to believe me. I have to go.

Roland: Bullshit. I'm captain of this ship, *I'll* say where it has to go. And believe me, this ship will go to hell long before I let you take it anywhere!

Niobe: He can have mine.

Roland: Niobe! You can't do that!

Niobe: Don't you even begin to tell me what I can and can't do with my ship after that little speech.

[Bane has burned Neo's eyes out]

Neo: I'm all right, Trin... but I think you're gonna have to drive.

[to Bane/Smith, after he is blinded]

Neo: I can see you.

Neo: What do you want?

Bane: I want what you want... Yes. That's it, Mr. Anderson. Look past the flesh. Look through the soft gelatin of these dull cow eyes and see your enemy!

Neo: ...No.

Bane: Oh yes, Mr. Anderson.

Neo: It can't be...

Bane: There's nowhere I can't go. There's nowhere I won't find you.

Neo: It's impossible...!

Bane: Not impossible. Inevitable. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.

Trinity: If you tell me we'll make it I'll believe you.

Neo: We'll make it. We have to.

Neo: One way or another, I'm getting on this train.

Trainman: You don't get it. I built this place. Down here I make the rules. Down here *I* make the threats.

[the Trainman punches Neo, sending him flying back into the wall]

Trainman: Down here... I'm God.

Neo: Who are you?

Bane: Still don't recognize me? I admit it is difficult to even think encased in this rotting piece of meat. The stink of it filling every breath, a suffocating cloud you can't escape. Disgusting. How pathetically fragile it is. Nothing this weak is meant to survive.

Bane: Ah, Mr. Anderson, I see you are as predictable in this world as you are in the other.

Neo: What?

Trinity: He's out of his mind.

Bane: It may appear that way to you, but Mr. Anderson and I know that appearances can be deceiving.

Neo: Three lines...

Trinity: Power lines.

Neo: Follow them.

Mr. Popper: Neo, I knew you would save me.

Neo: I didn't save you kid, you saved yourself.

Neo: They know you know, get out, get out now!

Neo: Sometimes people can be helped for no reason other than human charity.

Nyla: Men, you're all useless and crazy.

Nyla: We must be quiet from here on in.

Neo: Why?

Nyla: Sewage worms.

Klyton: What?