Laurence Fishburne
- Highest Rated: Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (2019)
- Lowest Rated: Imprisoned (2019)
- Birthday: Jul 30, 1961
- Birthplace: Augusta, Georgia, USA
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Was cast in Apocalypse Now when he was 14 by telling director Francis Ford Coppola he was 18. Turned down the role of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It five times. When he heard Angela Bassett would be playing Tina, he reconsidered. First African-American to play Shakespeare's Othello on film, in the 1995 movie. Wrote his 2000 directorial debut film Once in the Life, which he based on his play, Riff Raff. In 2008, began a two-and-a-half season stint as criminal pathologist Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Portrayed Thurgood Marshall on Broadway in 2008's one-man play Thurgood; later reprised his role for a 2010 Kennedy Center production that HBO filmed and then debuted in 2011.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
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Year |
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67% | The Cotton Club Encore | Actor | — | 2019 |
22% | Running with the Devil | The Man | — | 2019 |
0% | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | — | 2019 |
49% | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | — | 2019 |
100% | Apocalypse Now: Final Cut | Clean | — | 2019 |
90% | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | Bowery King | — | 2019 |
Five Fingers | Actor Producer | — | 2019 | |
La Traque du diable | Actor | — | 2019 | |
70% | The Mule | DEA Special Agent | — | 2018 |
88% | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Bill Foster | — | 2018 |
78% | Last Flag Flying | Mueller | $0.5M | 2017 |
89% | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Bowery King | $92M | 2017 |
30% | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | $100.1M | 2016 |
28% | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | $293.8M | 2016 |
56% | Standoff | Executive Producer Producer Sade | — | 2016 |
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | Actor | — | 2015 | |
60% | The Signal | Damon | $0.5M | 2014 |
18% | Ride Along | Omar | $110.4M | 2014 |
44% | Khumba | Seko | $91K | 2013 |
18% | The Colony | Briggs | — | 2013 |
56% | Man of Steel | Perry White | $291.1M | 2013 |
33% | A Man's Story | Actor | — | 2012 |
Slavery By Another Name | Narrator | — | 2012 | |
100% | Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone | Narrator | — | 2011 |
84% | Contagion | Dr. Ellis Cheever | $75.7M | 2011 |
Have A Little Faith | Rev. Henry Covington | — | 2011 | |
Thurgood | Actor | — | 2011 | |
65% | Predators | Noland | $52.1M | 2010 |
Black Water Transit | Jack Vermillion | — | 2010 | |
40% | Armored | Baines | $16M | 2009 |
36% | 21 | Cole Williams | $81.2M | 2008 |
Days of Wrath | Actor | — | 2008 | |
The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Tad Bruzsa | — | 2007 | |
37% | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Voice of the Silver Surfer | $131.8M | 2007 |
34% | TMNT | Narrator | $54.2M | 2007 |
47% | Bobby | Edward Robinson | $11.1M | 2006 |
70% | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | $133.5M | 2006 |
Five Fingers | Ahmat | — | 2006 | |
85% | Akeelah and the Bee | Dr. Larabee Producer | $18.9M | 2006 |
59% | Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | $20M | 2005 |
The Burly Man Chronicles | Actor | — | 2004 | |
35% | The Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | $139.1M | 2003 |
88% | Mystic River | Whitey Powers | $88.9M | 2003 |
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Actor | — | 2003 | |
73% | The Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | $281.6M | 2003 |
23% | Biker Boyz | Smoke | $21.8M | 2003 |
The Soul of a Man | Narrator | — | 2003 | |
93% | Apocalypse Now Redux | Clean | $2M | 2001 |
55% | Osmosis Jones | Thrax | $12.4M | 2001 |
28% | Once in the Life | Screenwriter Director 20/20 Mike Producer | — | 2001 |
Welcome to Hollywood | Actor | — | 2000 | |
67% | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator | — | 2000 |
88% | The Matrix | Morpheus | — | 1999 |
Always Outnumbered | Executive Producer Socrates Fortlow | — | 1998 | |
Welcome to Hollywood | Himself | — | 1998 | |
43% | Hoodlum | Executive Producer Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson | — | 1997 |
27% | Event Horizon | Miller | — | 1997 |
Miss Evers' Boys | Executive Producer Caleb Humphries | — | 1997 | |
Century of Black Cinema | Actor | — | 1997 | |
16% | Fled | Piper | — | 1996 |
67% | Othello | Othello | — | 1995 |
88% | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | — | 1995 |
24% | Just Cause | Tanny Brown | — | 1995 |
27% | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | — | 1995 |
45% | Higher Learning | Prof. Phipps | — | 1994 |
100% | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Vinnie | — | 1993 |
96% | What's Love Got To Do With It? | Ike Turner | — | 1993 |
86% | Deep Cover | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | — | 1992 |
96% | Boyz n the Hood | Furious Styles | — | 1991 |
100% | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Actor | — | 1991 |
75% | Class Action | Holbrook | — | 1991 |
Decoration Day | Michael Waring | — | 1990 | |
71% | King of New York | Jimmy Jump | — | 1990 |
42% | Cadence | Stokes | — | 1989 |
67% | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | — | 1988 |
58% | School Daze | Dap Dunlap | — | 1988 |
40% | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | — | 1988 |
The Father Clements Story | Actor | — | 1987 | |
47% | Gardens of Stone | Cpl. Flanagan | — | 1987 |
74% | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Max | — | 1987 |
11% | Band of the Hand | Cream | — | 1986 |
13% | Quicksilver | Voodoo | — | 1986 |
80% | The Color Purple | Swain | — | 1985 |
75% | The Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | — | 1984 |
70% | Rumble Fish | Midget | — | 1983 |
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | — | 1983 | |
33% | Death Wish II | Cutter | — | 1982 |
Willie & Phil | Wilson | — | 1980 | |
A Rumor of War | Actor | — | 1980 | |
Fast Break | Street Kid | — | 1979 | |
98% | Apocalypse Now | Clean | — | 1979 |
Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford | — | 1975 |
TV
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Year |
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80% |
mixed-ish
2019
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Executive Producer Pops |
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grown-ish
2018
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Executive Producer |
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91% |
black-ish
2014
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Producer Executive Producer Pops |
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Black Hollywood: They've Gotta Have Us
2018
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Appearing |
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The Talk
2010
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Guest |
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The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
2015
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Guest |
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Conan
2010
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Guest |
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Harry
2016-2018
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Guest |
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100% |
Madiba
2017
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Nelson Mandela NELSON MANDELA |
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The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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Guest |
|
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Year Million
2017
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Narrator Executive Producer |
|
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96% |
Roots
2016
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Alex Haley |
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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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Guest |
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Jay Leno's Garage
2015
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Guest |
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64% |
The Muppets
2015-2016
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Himself |
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92% |
Hannibal
2013-2015
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Director Dr. Jack Crawford Jack Crawford |
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Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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Guest |
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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Ray Langston Raymond Langston |
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The View
1997
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Guest |
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Iron Chef America
2004-2018
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Judge |
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Dr. Phil
2002
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Guest |
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Lopez Tonight
2009-2011
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Guest |
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Crime Scene Investigation [DELETED]
2003-2010
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Raymond Langston |
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CSI: Miami
2002-2012
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Ray Langston |
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CSI: NY
2004-2013
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Ray Langston |
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Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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Guest |
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The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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Guest |
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100% |
Tribeca
1993
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The Equalizer
1985-1989
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Casey |
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Miami Vice
1984-1990
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Kellar |
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American Playhouse
1982-1996
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Jimbo Collins |
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M*A*S*H
1972-1983
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Cpl. Dorsey |
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Trapper John, M.D.
1979-1986
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Hobie |
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QUOTES FROM Laurence Fishburne CHARACTERS
- Perry White
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Clicks his heels three times, and he's back in Kansas.
- Perry White
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Nobody cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman!
- Perry White
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Kent! Where does he go? Where does he go?..Clicks his heels three times and goes back to Kansas I suppose..
- Perry White
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Nobody cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman
- Perry White
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Nobody cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman.
- Sade
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You want to play with me?
- Sade
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You're a soldier boy. Is this a broken home?
- Sade
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I see you know your guns, friend. Now you need to know your place.
- Omar
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Stop throwing stuff
- Miggs
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I can't I already pulled it
- Omar
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If Omar shoots him then Omar shoot him
- Russell Stevens Jr./John Hull
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I'd been turned out like a two-dollar whore, with no kiss and no towel.
- Russell Stevens Jr./John Hull
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What would you do?
- Neo
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Am I dead?
- Morpheus
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Far from it.
- Tank
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How?
- Morpheus
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He is the one!
- Morpheus
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Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is. You'll have to see it for yourself.
- Niobe
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I keep thinking, what if you're wrong? What if all this, the prophecy, everything is bullshit?
- Morpheus
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Then, we'll all be dead.
- Cutter
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Awww, man. We look all the same to whitey, anyway. He'll never pick you out, Jiver.
- Ahmat
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If more Westerners played chess, they would understand.There are no bluffs--only calculations.
- Darryl
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I ain't afraid of you.
- Socrates Fortlow
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Yeah you is. You ain't no fool.
- Morpheus
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Neo, if you're out there, I could use some help.
- Neo
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What do you want, Smith?
- Agent Smith
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Oh, you haven't you figured that out? still using all the muscles except the one that matters. I want exactly what you want, I want everything.
- Morpheus
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would that include a bullet from this gun?
- Agent Smith
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Go ahead, Shoot. The best thing about being me, is there so many mes!
- Perry White
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I just came back from Aruba... Check out my tan.
- Perry White
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I just came back from Aruba. Check out my tan.
- Perry White
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Can you imagine how the people on this planet would react if they knew there was someone like this out there?
- Morpheus
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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.
- Furious Styles
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Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children.
- Neo
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I thought it wasn't real.
- Morpheus
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Your mind makes it real.
- Morpheus
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Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
- Morpheus
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What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on. Stop trying to hit me and hit me.
- Morpheus
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If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
- Neo
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Am I dead?
- Morpheus
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Far from it.
- Morpheus
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What if tomorrow the war could be over? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?
- Morpheus
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Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if were unable to wake up from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world & the real world?
- Neo
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This can't be.
- Morpheus
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Be what? Be real?
- Morpheus
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This is a war, and we are soldiers, what if tomorrow the war could be over, isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?
- Morpheus
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The matrix is a system Neo, that system is our enemy.
- Neo
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I know Kung Fu!
- Morpheus
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Show me!
- Morpheus
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The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's design to disrupt your input/output carrier signal so we can pinpoint your location.
- Neo
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What does that mean?
- Cypher
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It means buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy because Kansas is going bye bye.
- Morpheus
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You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief, Free your mind.
- Neo
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I know what you're trying to do.
- Morpheus
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I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
- Morpheus
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Come on! Stop trying to hit me and hit me!
- Morpheus
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Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
- Morpheus
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Morpheus: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
- Morpheus
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Do you think that's air you're breathing now?
- Morpheus
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Nobody can be told what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself.
- Morpheus
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Were you listening to me Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
- Morpheus
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If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
- Morpheus
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If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
- Morpheus
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There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- Morpheus
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If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
- Morpheus
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[after knocking Neo down] How did I beat you?
- Neo
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[gasping] You're too fast.
- Morpheus
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Do you believe that my being faster or stronger has anything to do with my muscles in this place? You think that's air you're breathing now?
- Morpheus
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He is the one.
- Captain Miller
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You miss me, you blow out the hull.
- Weir
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What makes you think I'll miss?
- Captain Miller
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This place is a tomb!
- Captain Miller
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Vacate! I want off this ship!
- Weir
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You can't leave. She won't let you.
- Captain Miller
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You just get your gear and get back on the Lewis and Clark, Doctor, or you'll find yourself walkin' home.
- Weir
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I am home.
- Captain Miller
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Oh. My. God. What happened to your eyes?
- Weir
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Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
- Captain Miller
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What are you talking about?
- Weir
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I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive! Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful?
- Captain Miller
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Your "beautiful" ship killed its crew, Doctor.
- Weir
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Well... now she has another crew. Now she has us.
- Theodore Brassel
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Mr. Musgrave, please don't interrupt me when I'm asking rhetorical questions.
- Morpheus
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Welcome...To the real world.
- Morpheus
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Welcome... To the real world.
- Playmate of the Year
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Who are you?
- Clean
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I'm next, ma'am.
- Neo
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If you're killed in the matrix, you die here?
- Neo
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If you're killed in the Matrix, you die here?
- Morpheus
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The body cannot live without the mind
- Morpheus
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The body cannot live without the mind.
- Morpheus
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Free your mind.
- Morpheus
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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.
- Morpheus
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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
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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.
- Dr. Ellis Cheever
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Well, Dr. Gupta, there continue to be evaluations of several drugs, Ribavirin is among them. But, right now our best defence has been social distancing. No hands shaking, staying home when you're sick, washing your hands frequently.
- Helpful Doctor
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Alan today on Twitter, you wrote on that the truth about this virus is being kept from the world, by the CDC, by the World Health Organisation, to allow friends of the current administration to benefit from it both financially and physically.
- Morpheus
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No. What happend happend, and couldn't have happend any other way.
- Weir
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Now it is time to go back.
- Weir
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And now... it is time to go back.
- Captain Miller
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I know, to hell
- Captain Miller
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[sounding bored] I know. To hell
- Weir
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You know noting. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse. Let me show you!
- Weir
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You know nothing. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse. Let me show you!
- Dr. Ellis Cheever
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No one has to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that
- Dr. Ellis Cheever
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Someone doesn't has to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that.
- Dr. Ellis Cheever
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Someone doesn't have to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that.
- Dr. Ellis Cheever
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So we have a virus with no treatment protocol, and no vaccine at this time.
- Morpheus
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I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
- Morpheus
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Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
- Morpheus
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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.
- Morpheus
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As long as the Matrix exists, the human race will never be free.
- Max
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This lump over here... This is Kincaid. Now I want you to take a good look. See, he gets himself thrown in the quite room so often that you probably won't see a whole lot of him. Ain't that right, "Cool Breeze"?
- Max
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This lump over here. This is Kincaid. Now I want you to take a good look. See, he gets himself thrown in the quite room so often that you probably won't see a whole lot of him. Ain't that right, 'Cool Breeze'?
- Kincaid
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Right. I do it so I don't have to look at your ugly face all the time.
- Max
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Yeah, I love you too.
- Max
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Say, listen Doc, I got a new theory about all these suicides...Right?
- Max
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Say, listen Doc, I got a new theory about all these suicides. Right?
- Dr. Neil Goldman
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Don't hold back on us, Max. We need all the help we can get.
- Max
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It's fu*ked up chromosomes, man. Think about it. All their parents dropped acid during the sixties.
- Dr. Neil Goldman
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Well, it beats Simm's theory. She thinks it's nothing but sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
- Max
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Sh*t. That's what keeps people alive.
- Max
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Girl, what are you doing?
- Jennifer
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Watching TV.
- Max
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Why don't you read a book? You watch too much damn TV.
- Jennifer
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Research.
- Max
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Oh, right. You're gonna be a TV star.
- Jennifer
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Wait and see.
- Max
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Well, if Simms catches you up here after lights out she is gonna chew my ass...
- Jennifer
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I gotta stay up, Max!
- Max
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Jennifer.
- Jennifer
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Just tonight, please? I can't handle the nightmare. Not after Phillip. Not tonight.
- Max
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Okay. But I never saw you.
- Jennifer
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Thanks Max.
- Weir
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Do you see ?!
- Weir
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Do You See?!
- Weir
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DO YOU SEE?!?!
- Captain Miller
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Yes. I see. "Presses detonator switch"
- Captain Miller
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Yes. I see. [Presses detonator switch]
- Morpheus
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do you think thats air your breathing?
- Morpheus
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Do you think thats air you're breathing now?
- Morpheus
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There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- Ike Turner
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"Eat the Cake Anna-Mae"
- Ike Turner
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Eat the Cake Anna-Mae.
- Morpheus
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I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
- Noland
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They can hear you. Smell you. They see you.
- Morpheus
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If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
- Morpheus
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What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on. Stop trying to hit me and hit me.