64 Inspirational Keanu Reeves Quotes That Will Help You Tide Difficult Times
Keanu Reeves belongs to an increasingly rare breed of actors in modern Hollywood. He is a big movie star, whose involvement in a project is often enough to make it a commercial success. However, he continues to maintain an incredible level of humility in his life. His life has been marred by several tragedies, including the deaths of a friend, former wife, and stillborn daughter. He is very close to his family, a doting brother to his three sisters and a dutiful son to his mother. Deeply spiritual, he does not adhere to any particular religion. He is greatly passionate about martial arts and motorcycles and utterly indifferent about the accumulation of more wealth. We have collected several of his quotes from various interviews, articles, and speeches. Here are some of the things that he has to say about acting, cinema, religion, spirituality, success, and life in general.
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
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.
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've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.
Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
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've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'
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.
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.
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 believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.
You need to be happy to live, i don't.
I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.
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.
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.
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.
When the people you love are gone, you're alone.
I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.
How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.
