Keanu Reeves Quotes

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

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.

If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, than you're a badass with a heart of an angel.

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

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

I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil.

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

Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm.

But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist.

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

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

It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

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.

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 pharmacology, do the psychology.

Life is good when you have a good sandwich.

'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.

There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things but yeah I can imagine that you can kind of - I think it depends on one's psychological state. I think there are some people who are on the internet and can fall in love and seem to be in a certain psychological state and other people who are - who couldn't quite do that.

Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows.

It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us.

.. sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.

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

Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

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

Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

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.

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

I don't know any real jiu-jitsu or judo or anything.

I do movie kung fu. With that, you can fake a punch, but you can't really fake a judo throw. You can get help from the person who you're throwing because they can kind of launch themselves.

A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation.

Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage.

.. You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

You're playing and you think everything is going fine.

Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can't move... you can't breathe... because you're in over your head. Like quicksand.

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.

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.

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'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.

So many people have that relationship.

The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process;

even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn't be our style. ... Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever.

When I think about him, I think about him as John and John Wick.

I think of John Wick being the assassin part of John. I would say that guy has strong will; never gives up; he's kind; and there's honor about him. He's also a man of strength. There are even some vulnerabilities to him. Most importantly, he's good at his job.

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.

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.

The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

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.

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.

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