Quotes By Keanu Reeves

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

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.

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 mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

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

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.

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

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

I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

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.

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

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

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

I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.

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

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 think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

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.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

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

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