Mr. Robot (TV Series)
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Rami Malek: Elliot Alderson
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Quotes
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Elliot : How do we know if we're in control? That we're not just making the best of what comes at us, and that's it? Trying to constantly pick between two shitty options? Like your two paintings in the waiting room. Or... Coke and Pepsi? McDonald's or Burger King? Hyundai or Honda? Hmm. It's all part of the same blur, right? Just out of focus enough. It's the illusion of choice. Half of us can't even pick our own... our cable, gas, electric. The water we drink, our health insurance. Even if we did, would it matter? You know, if our only option is Blue Cross or Blue Shield, what the fuck is the difference? In fact, aren't they... aren't they the same? No, man... our choices are prepaid for us, long time ago.
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Mr. Robot : Tell me one thing, Elliot. Are you a one or a zero? That's the question you have to ask yourself. Are you a yes or a no? Are you going to act or not?
Elliot : Yo... You've been staring at a computer screen way too long, homie. Life's not that binary.
Mr. Robot : Isn't it? Sure, there are grays... but when you come right down to it, at its core, beneath every choice, there's either a one or a zero. You either do something or you don't. You walk out that door, you've decided to do nothing, to say no, which means you do not come back. You leave, you are no longer a part of this. You become a zero. If you stay, if you want to change the world, you become a yes. You become a one. So, I'll ask you again: are you a one or a zero?
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Elliot Alderson : How do we know if we're in control?
Elliot Alderson : It's the illusion of choice.
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Elliot : He's too old to have a complicated password.
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Elliot Alderson : You can't go back to him. I don't need the pills, just find someone else...
Shayla Nico : I can't. He gives me a really good deal on the split. I make good money.
Elliot Alderson : [Voice-over] There it is again, the invisible hand at work, controlling us, even if it pushes us past our threshold of pain.
