The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Gloria Foster: The Oracle

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• Neo : But if you already know, how can I make a choice?

  The Oracle : Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand *why* you made it. I thought you'd have figured that out by now.

• The Oracle : Candy?

  Neo : Do you already know if I'm going to take it?

  The Oracle : Wouldn't be much of an Oracle if I didn't.

• [about Merovingian] 

  Neo : What does he want?

  The Oracle : What do all men with power want? More power.

• Neo : Are there other programs like you?

  The Oracle : Oh, well, not like me. But... look, see those birds? At some point a program was written to govern them. A program was written to watch over the trees, and the wind, the sunrise, and sunset. There are programs running all over the place. The ones doing their job, doing what they were meant to do, are invisible. You'd never even know they were here. But the other ones, well, we hear about them all the time.

  Neo : I've never heard of them.

  The Oracle : Oh, of course you have. Every time you've heard someone say they saw a ghost, or an angel. Every story you've ever heard about vampires, werewolves, or aliens, is the system assimilating some program that's doing something they're not supposed to be doing.

• The Oracle : [to Neo]  We are all here to do what we are all here to do...

• The Oracle : Do you see her die?

  Neo : No.

  The Oracle : You have the sight now, Neo. You are looking at the world without time.

  Neo : Then why can't I see what happens to her?

  The Oracle : We can never see past the choices we don't understand.

  Neo : Are you saying I have to choose whether Trinity lives or dies?

  The Oracle : No, you've already made the choice. Now you have to understand it.

  Neo : No. I can't do that. I won't.

  The Oracle : Well, you have to.

  Neo : Why?

  The Oracle : Because you're the One.

• The Oracle : So, let's get the obvious stuff out of the way.

  Neo : You're not human, are you?

  The Oracle : It's tough to get any more obvious than that.

• Neo : I suppose the most obvious question is, how can I trust you?

  The Oracle : Bingo. It is a pickle. No doubt about it. The bad news is there's no way if you can really know whether I'm here to help you or not, so it's really up to you. You just have to make up you on damned mind to either accept what I'm going to tell you, or reject it.

• The Oracle : It seems that every time we meet, I have nothing but bad news. I'm sorry about that, I surely am. But for what it's worth, you've made a believer out of me. Good luck, kiddo.

• Neo : Why are you here?

  The Oracle : Same reason. I love candy.

• Neo : What happens if I fail?

  The Oracle : Then Zion will fall.