Quotes By Keanu Reeves

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

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

But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

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

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

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

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 do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

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

You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

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

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

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.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

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.