Top 100 Keanu Quotes
#1. A minute later he (Brady) collapsed next to me. "What do you say to the person who gave you the best orgasm of your life?"
"Thank you, Keanu (Reeves)?
Michele Bardsley
#2. People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful.
Joel Spolsky
#3. People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's afraid to say, 'Keanu Reeves was bad in that movie.' We see so many films that we can tell who's faking it. But with art, we can't always tell.
William Quigley
#4. He set down his chili dog, and after a pondering moment of silence, he replied with words of wisdom I'd never forget: "Fuck women. Fuck school. Fuck money. Go write some books, get a good agent, lift weights, get tattoos, and never do a film with Keanu Reeves.
Jon Konrath
#5. There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.
Francis Lawrence
#6. My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!
Matt Prokop
#7. Many of my ex-girlfriends were habitual half-asian daters. These women considered half-asian men 'exotic,' 'sexy,' and 'just-like-Keanu Reeves-in-the-Matrix. I consider these stereotypes appropriate because I got laid.
Kip Fulbeck
#8. Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.
Juliana Hatfield
#9. Before the man could answer V cursed "If I have to hear all that Keanu Reeves, Matrix, I am Neo' kind of shit my head's going to explode."
"Don't you mean Neon?" Butch shot back "Cause he reminds me of the Citgo sign."
Wraths head turned "Shut the fuck up. All of you.
J.R. Ward
#10. Doesn't prove she's dumped you for a gym rat with the face of Keanu Reeves, the anatomy of King Dong, and the charisma of moi
David Mitchell
#11. We finally settled on Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula, which, unfortunately, Gabriel seemed to think was a comedy. I think it was the combination of Keanu Reeves's British accent and Gary Oldman's elderly Count Dracula hairstyle. They're just misleading.
Molly Harper
#12. In 'The Matrix,' you see the fight between Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne. It's an amazing fight. But I know that they've rehearsed it for months beforehand. Because in some of the moves you can see them anticipating blocks before they actually happen.
Daniel Wu
#13. I already have two movies in the can, low-key, which are 'Vincent-N-Roxxy' and 'Keanu' with Key and Peele, which is my first comedy, and it's going to be super dope, definitely funny. They're so great, and they've been such life coaches to me.
Jason Mitchell
#14. I'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!'
Ashton Kutcher
#15. That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
Rachel Weisz
#16. I had met Keanu [Reeves]a few times so it was a great way to reach out to him with an actual job offer. He very kindly agreed to be part of it and it was an amazing experience.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#17. I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was ... very erotic.
Hugo Weaving
#18. Then I saw Keanu Reeves in 'Much Ado About Nothing' and I know if he can do it, I can do it too.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#19. The only time in history Keanu Reeves' acting would have been considered appropriate is if he were the first human being on earth. But then you have to consider that the flowers would wilt.
Gregor Collins
#20. I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.
Troy Duffy
#21. I have a lot of actors I want to work with; Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, and Uma Thurman.
Yuen Woo-ping
#22. The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the existing categories. I call these kids the "Keanu Reeves Generation," after the actor who has a Hawaiian father and a Welsh mother.
Richard Rodriguez
#23. I'm get really into jackets from movies, Keanu Reeves' jackets and that, I don't know why, I just have such a thing for them.
Ryan Jarman
#24. I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.
Keanu Reeves
#25. I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
Keanu Reeves
#26. 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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#27. I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.
Keanu Reeves
#28. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#29. The impact of falling in love for the first time has a special place in our arhitecture.
Keanu Reeves
#30. 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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#31. I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#41. 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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#42. Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.
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#43. 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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#44. Anything where there's great enthusiasm, and a place to come share what you think is cool.
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#45. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#46. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#47. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
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#51. 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.
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#52. The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.
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#53. 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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#54. The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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#55. 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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#56. Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.
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#57. Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.
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#58. I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.
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#59. How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
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#60. Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.
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#61. 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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#62. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#63. When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.
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#64. 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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#65. The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that's great.
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#66. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#67. 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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#69. 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.
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#70. What sort of girls do i like? - They are all angels.
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#71. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#72. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#74. I'm a Virgo; it's in my sign to be hard on myself.
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#75. When the people you love are gone, you're alone.
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#76. It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.
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#77. 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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#78. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#79. If the Arabs are strong enough, they would destroy the whole world,therefore, we should annihilate them.
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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#83. Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
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#84. We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.
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#85. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#86. And it's easy to stay grounded. The ground is very close. And we walk on it every day.
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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.
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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. 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.
Keanu Reeves
#94. 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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#95. Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
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#96. I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.
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#97. 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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#98. It's hard to act in the morning. The muse isn't even awake.
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#99. I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin ...
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#100. 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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