Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that. – Keanu Reeves
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
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
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
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems. – Keanu Reeves
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
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
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
Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic. – Keanu Reeves
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
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. – Keanu Reeves
I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water. – Keanu Reeves
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
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
On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones. – Keanu Reeves
I’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb. – Keanu Reeves
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. – Keanu Reeves
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
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
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. – Keanu Reeves