Top 100 Keanu Reeves Quotes
#1. I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.
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#2. I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
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#3. I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.
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#4. I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.
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#5. How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.
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#6. The impact of falling in love for the first time has a special place in our arhitecture.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it's nice not to have to worry about bills.
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#9. But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.
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#10. I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just ... wouldn't have come up out of the water.
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#11. 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.
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#12. I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].
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#13. I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.
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#14. Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the heart and soul. We're not all that bad. I don't really know!
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#16. I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.
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#17. Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.
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#18. Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell.
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#19. Anything where there's great enthusiasm, and a place to come share what you think is cool.
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.
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#23. 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.
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#24. I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
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#25. I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.
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#29. I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.
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#30. How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
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#31. I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.
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#32. 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.
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#33. When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.
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#34. 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.
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#35. The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that's great.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#39. What sort of girls do i like? - They are all angels.
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#40. I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.
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#41. 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.
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#43. I'm a Virgo; it's in my sign to be hard on myself.
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#44. When the people you love are gone, you're alone.
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#45. It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.
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#46. It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.
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#47. I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and if they like you, and that is important in terms of considering a role. Choosing a role is all about whether I relate to the role and the story really. That's the criteria.
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#48. If the Arabs are strong enough, they would destroy the whole world,therefore, we should annihilate them.
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#49. On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage ... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.
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#50. 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.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
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#53. 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.
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#54. And it's easy to stay grounded. The ground is very close. And we walk on it every day.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.
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#59. 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,
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#60. 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.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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.
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#63. Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
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#64. I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.
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#65. 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.
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#66. It's hard to act in the morning. The muse isn't even awake.
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#67. I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin ...
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#68. You have to change your life if you're not happy, and wake up if things aren't going the way you want.
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#69. Life is good when you have a good sandwich.
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#70. Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.
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#71. 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.
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#72. 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.
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#73. I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
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#74. I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
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#75. I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
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#76. I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
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#77. Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.
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#78. I thank the earth and the sky everyday for the opportunities I've had.
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#79. All the dreams I dream are nightmares and those nightmares are the ones I live.
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#80. 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.
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#81. Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn't exist.
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#82. Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.
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#83. 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.
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#84. I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.
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#85. I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.
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#86. 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.
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#87. You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.
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#88. Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.
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#89. I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.
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#90. '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.
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#91. I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.
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#92. Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
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#93. I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people ... I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.
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#94. I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
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#95. Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.
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#96. The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I've ever had.
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#97. One interview would lead us to another interview, which led us to another interview. We had the questions and the idea of chonicling this moment in time. But we didn't have a movie, per se. As we started interviewing people, it started to kind of define itself.
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#98. Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
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#99. 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.
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#100. Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.
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