Keanu Reeves Quotes (41 Quotes)


    The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

    I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

    I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

    The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

    When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.


    On his new motorbike I wanted to spend some time with it and get to know it.

    I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

    I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

    What would happen if you melted You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion It exists People burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real.

    And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

    And I had a great time making Reloaded and Revolutions. It's great that people are coming out to see the films and I hope they enjoy them.

    On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

    When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

    One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, ... Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the phar

    I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

    Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

    When I read in US Weekly the other day that she was fifty-nine, ... I was like, 'whoa, dude, no way she's old enough to be my mother.' Being with somebody that old is like committing incest, only you're not related.

    Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

    You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

    Is there any hope for Constantine 2 No, ... We didn't quite make it.

    I just couldn't sit through Harold and Maude one more time, ... Diane has really old tastes for a woman her age.

    I'm meeting with Adrian Lyne and Catherine Zeta- Jones to do a reading of some of the scenes and hopefully we can get that picture made.

    I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

    I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.

    It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.

    Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

    It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

    The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.


    Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

    I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

    mirror that is an archetype of our own time and our own life.

    The humanity of the piece, the humor and insightfulness, and intelligence, they were what I read, and what I experienced when I got to see what was on the screen. I'm really happy with the film. In terms of my hopes and expectations, they were realized. It's a great role, and I had a great time performing it.

    I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

    I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.

    Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

    I got smelled, ... we had a lovely conversation, and I was in.

    I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

    People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

    Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

    I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.


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