Keanu Reeves credited as playing...
Neo
- [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. Tumbling down the rabbit hole? Hmm?
- 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: 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.