Memorable Quotes from Hugo Weaving
11 quotesConflict Without Reason
Bertha Doss
What are they fighting about?
Tom Doss
When'd they ever need a reason?
Bertha Doss
Tom! Ugh!
Tom Doss
Why stop em? Saves me whipping them both. This way, I just whip the one that wins.
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Dual Identities in The Matrix
Agent Smith
As you can see, we've had our ] on you for some ] now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a Social Security number, you pay your taxes, and you...help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in ], where you go by ] "Neo" and are ] of virtually every computer ] we have a ] for. One of these lives has a ], and one of them does not.
[''To Thomas Anderson/Neo in interrogation room''; [eye; [time; [computers; [w:Security hacker|the hacker alias; [guilty; [crime; [law; [future]
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The Illusion of a Perfect World
Agent Smith
Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be ]. Where none suffered. Where everyone would be happy. ]. Some believed that we lacked ] to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that ]. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, ]. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is, of course, what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.
[''To Morpheus of a near top skyscraper floor''; [w:Heaven|a perfect human world; [w:Disaster|It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost; [w:Programming language theory|the programming language; [w:Archaic humans#Brain size expansion|your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from; [w:Kardashev scale|the peak of your civilization]
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Dual Lives and Choices in The Matrix
Agent Smith
As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one ], you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You ], you 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 ]. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual, a man who calls himself Morpheus. Now whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start, and all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.
[''Produces folder and opens it''; [life; [w:Social Security number|have a Social Security number; [w:Cybercrime|are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for]
Neo
Yeah. Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. But I think I may have a better one: How about ] and you give me my phone call?
[[w:The finger|I give you the finger...; ''displays the gesture to Smith'']
Agent Smith
Oh, Mr. Anderson... you disappoint me.
Neo
You can't scare me with this ] crap. I know my rights. I want my phone call.
[[w:Gestapo|Gestapo]
Agent Smith
Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you're unable to speak? You're going to help us, Mr. Anderson. Whether you want to or not.
[''Neo’s mouth suddenly starts to "melt together" until he's completely mute; he backs into the corner of the room as Agents Jones and Brown hold him and then push him towards the table, slamming him on it, face up, as Smith readies to implant a bug into Neo''; ''The "bug" turns into an actual insect and enters Neo through his navel. After it enters him, he wakes up at home in bed'']
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Agent Smith's Assertion of Futility
Agent Smith
I'm sorry, gentlemen, but this is a dead end.
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Transformation and Defiance in the Matrix
Agent Smith
I killed you, Mr. Anderson, I watched you die; and with a certain satisfaction, I might add. And then something happened. Something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway: you destroyed me, Mr. Anderson. Afterward, I knew the rules, I understood 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'm changed, unplugged, a new man, so to speak, like you, apparently free.
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Humans as a Disease: A Dark Perspective
Agent Smith
I'd like to share ] during my time here. It came to me when ]. ] but you humans do not. ]. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? ]. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
[[w:Revelation|a revelation that I've had; [w:Mammal classification|I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals; [w:Balance of nature|Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; [w:Human migration|You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area; [w:virus|A virus]
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Unity in the Face of Destruction
Elrond
Strangers from distant lands, friends of old, you've been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle Earth stands upon the brink of destruction; none can escape it. You will unite or you will fall. Each race is bound to this fate, this one doom.
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Struggles and Choices in a Dark World
Elrond
He will come to death, an image of the splendour of the kings of men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. But you, my daughter, you will linger on in darkness and in doubt, as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Here you will dwell, bound to your grief, under the fading trees, until all the world is changed and the long years of your life are utterly spent.
Faramir
A chance for Faramir, captain of Gondor, to show his quality.
Frodo
This is Sting. You've seen it before, haven't you... Gollum. Release him, or I'll cut your throat!
Gimli
Three days and nights pursuit. No food, no rest! Nor a sign of a quarry of what a bare rock can tell!
Gimli
I'm wasted on cross-country! We dwarves are natural sprinters! Very dangerous over short distances!
Merry
The fires of Isengard will spread. And the woods of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn. And all that was once green and good in this world will be gone. There won't be a Shire, Pippin.
Treebeard
It takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
Treebeard
Many of these trees were my friends. Creatures I had known from nut and acorn.
Uglúk
I don't take orders from orc maggots.
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Mind Hacking and Its Consequences
Neo
What are they doing to him?
Tank
Breaking into his mind. It’s like hacking into a computer, all it takes is time.
Neo
How much time?
Tank
Depends on the mind. Eventually it will crack and his alpha patterns will change from this to this. When it does, Morpheus will tell them anything they want to know.
Neo
Well, what do they want?
Tank
The leader of every ship is given codes to Zion’s mainframe computer. If an agent got the codes and got into Zion’s mainframe, it could destroy us. We can’t let that happen.
Neo
Trinity?
Tank
Zion’s more important than me or you or even Morpheus.
Neo
Well there has to be something that we can do.
Tank
There is. We pull the plug.
Trinity
You’re going to kill him? Kill Morpheus?
Tank
We don’t have any other choice.
Agent Smith
Never send a human to do a machine’s job.
Agent Brown
If indeed the insider has failed, they’ll sever the connection as soon as possible, unless...
Agent Jones
They’re dead, in either case...
Agent Smith
We have no choice but to continue as planned. Deploy the sentinels. Immediately.
Tank
Morpheus, you were more than a leader to us. You were… a father. We’ll miss you always.
Neo
Stop. I don’t believe this is happening.
Tank
Neo, this has to be done.
Neo
Does it? I don’t know, I... 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? What are you doing?
Neo
I’m going in.
Trinity
No you’re not.
Neo
I have to.
Trinity
Neo, Morpheus sacrificed himself so that he could get you out. There’s no way that you’re going back in.
Neo
Morpheus did what he did because he believed I am 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 not, I’m sorry. I’m just another guy.
Trinity
No, Neo. That’s not true. It can’t be true.
Neo
Why?
Tank
Neo, this is insane. 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 believed something and he was ready to give his life for what he believed. 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... What are you doing?
[''Neo turns, walks to screen terminal and Trinity goes besides him and starts tapping on another screen terminal'']
Trinity
Going with you.
Neo
No, you’re not.
Trinity
No? Let me tell you what I believe. I believe Morpheus means more to me than he does to you. I believe if you’re really serious about saving 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 aren’t going anywhere else. Tank? Load us up.
[''Walks up to Neo'']
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The Nature of Purpose and Existence
Agent Smith
We're not here because we're free; we're here because we're not free. There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose, for as we both know, without purpose we would not exist. It is purpose that created us, purpose that connects us, purpose that pulls us, that guides us, that drives us; it is purpose that defines, purpose that binds us. We are here because of you, Mr. Anderson. We're here to take from you what you tried to take from us... Purpose!
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