Top 100 Keanu Reeves Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

52. “It’s hard to act in the morning. The muse isn’t even awake.”

— Keanu Reeves

53. “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

54. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

55. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

56. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

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

— Keanu Reeves

58. “How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.”

— Keanu Reeves

59. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

60. “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

61. “Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.”

— Keanu Reeves

62. “Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.”

— Keanu Reeves

63. “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

64. “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

65. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

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

— Keanu Reeves

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

— Keanu Reeves

68. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

69. “The impact of falling in love for the first time has a special place in our arhitecture.”

— Keanu Reeves

70. “I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.”

— Keanu Reeves

71. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

72. “Anything where there’s great enthusiasm, and a place to come share what you think is cool.”

— Keanu Reeves

73. “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

74. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

75. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

76. “I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.”

— Keanu Reeves

77. “Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily lives that we forget to take the time out to enjoy the beauty in life. It’s like we’re zombies. Look up and take your headphones out. Say “Hi” to someone you see and maybe give a hug to someone who looks like they’re hurting.”

— Keanu Reeves

78. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

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

— Keanu Reeves

80. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

81. “The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that’s great.”

— Keanu Reeves

82. “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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83. “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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84. “I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.”

— Keanu Reeves

85. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

86. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

87. “The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they’re the same joys.”

— Keanu Reeves

88. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

89. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

90. “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

91. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

92. “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

93. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

94. “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

95. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

96. “Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.”

— Keanu Reeves

97. “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.”

— Keanu Reeves

98. “There’s nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.”

— Keanu Reeves

99. “A good date is when you are intoxicated with each other’s company and everything becomes good in the world.”

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100. “I was also raised to treat people exactly how I would like to be treated by others. It’s called respect.”

— Keanu Reeves