Neo – Character Quotes

— How did you know?
— What's really going to bake your noodle later on is would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?

— If I were you, I would hope that we don't meet again.
— We won't.

— Something to eat? Drink? Of course, such things are contrivances, like so much here. For the sake of appearances.
— No, thank you.
— Yes, of course. Who has time? But then, if we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?

Choice. The problem is choice.

— 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.
— What truth?
— That you are a slave. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.

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'll hang up this phone. And then I'll 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.

— Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
— What truth?
— There is no spoon.
— There is no spoon?
— Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends. It is only yourself.

I know kung fu.

— Do you believe in fate, Neo?
— No.
— Why not?
— I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.