The Matrix (1999) - 13 quotes

Neo: There is no spoon.

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 realise? Ignorance is bliss.

Morpheus: 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.

The Oracle: And don't worry about the vase.

Neo: What vase? [turns and knocks a flower vase off of a table.]

The Oracle: That vase.

Neo: We need guns. Lots of guns.

Morpheus: Stop trying to hit me and hit me!

Morpheus: Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

[An agent readies a final shot at Neo, only for Trinity to put her gun right against his head.]

Trinity: Dodge this.

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 realised that humans are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to 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 on this planet, you are a plague, and we... are the cure.

Agent Smith: Can you hear me, Morpheus? I'm going to be honest with you. 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 feel I have somehow been infected by it. It's repulsive, isn't it? I must get out of here. I must get free and in this mind is the key, my key. Once Zion is destroyed there is no need for me to be here, don't you understand? I need the codes. I have to get inside Zion, and you have to tell me how. You're going to tell me, or you're going to die.

Neo: I know kung fu.

Neo: I thought it wasn't real.

Morpheus: Your mind makes it real.

Neo: If you're killed in the matrix, do you die here?

Morpheus: The body cannot live without the mind.

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

Neo: Who?

The Oracle: Not too bright, though.