Pop Culture Quotes

Pop Culture Quotes is an ongoing public interest project that shares quotes from the famous (and the infamous).

from Blade Runner | PopCultureQuotes.com

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.

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By: Rutger Hauer
Characters: Roy Batty
From: Blade Runner
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Science Fiction | Thrillers

Context:
Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) says this to Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) at the end of Blade Runner, just before expiring.

from The Matrix | PopCultureQuotes.com

  • 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.
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By: Carrie-Anne Moss | Keanu Reeves
Characters: Neo | Trinity
From: The Matrix
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Science Fiction | Thrillers

Context:
Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Neo (Keanu Reeves) meet for the first time.

from The Matrix | PopCultureQuotes.com

Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

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By: Hugo Weaving
Characters: Agent Smith
From: The Matrix
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Science Fiction | Thrillers

Context:
Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) says this to Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) after capturing the freedom fighter during an operation carried out by Smith, other Agents and a SWAT Team. Smith is trying to "break" Morpheus' mind in order to get codes to Zion's mainframe computer. Zion is the last human city on Earth in the movie.

from The Matrix | PopCultureQuotes.com

Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

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By: Laurence Fishburne
Characters: Morpheus
From: The Matrix
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Science Fiction | Thrillers

Context:
Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) says to Neo (Keanu Reeves), who is confused about why he was led to believe he was not "The One," when indeed, he was "The One" all along.