Keanu Reeves

Actor

1964-09-02

Canadian actor known for major roles in action and science-fiction franchises including The Matrix and John Wick. His film career spans decades across drama, action, and comedy genres. He has remained a prominent international screen figure since the 1990s.

Books by Keanu Reeves

Ode to Happiness
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BRZRKR, Vol. 1
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The Book of Elsewhere
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Quotes by Keanu Reeves

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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When the people you love are gone, you're alone.
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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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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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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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I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
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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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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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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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I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
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I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.
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Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
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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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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
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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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I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
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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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I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.
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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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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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