Introduction,
Keanu Reeves is a Canadian actor, producer, and musician who was born on September 2, 1964, in Beirut, Lebanon. His mother was an English costume designer, and his father was a Hawaiian-born geologist of Chinese, English, and Portuguese descent.
Reeves grew up in Canada and began acting in high school plays. He made his film debut in the 1985 movie “One Step Away” and went on to appear in a number of successful films throughout the 1990s, including “Point Break,” “Speed,” and “The Matrix” trilogy.
Reeves has also pursued a career in music, playing bass guitar for the band Dogstar in the 1990s and later forming his own band, Becky. He has also dabbled in directing, with credits including the martial arts film “Man of Tai Chi.”
Despite his success, Reeves has faced personal tragedies throughout his life, including the deaths of his close friend and “Speed” co-star River Phoenix and his daughter, who was stillborn.
Despite his fame, Reeves is known for his down-to-earth personality and philanthropic efforts. He has supported a number of charitable causes, including cancer research and children’s hospitals.
Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place.
I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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.
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.
I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of not living.
The truth is often terrifying, which is why we prefer lies.
Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.
Karma’s just sharpening her nails and finishing her drink. She says she’ll be with you shortly.
The simple act of kindness, it can change everything.
Life is precious, but it’s also precarious. It can change in an instant.
Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits.
I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.
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.
Sometimes it’s good to have some mystery around your character, as it keeps people interested.
Multi-culture is the real culture of the world – a pure race doesn’t exist.
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.
If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.
Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger.
I cannot be part of a world where men dress their wives as prostitutes by showing everything that should be cherished. Where there is no concept of honor and dignity, and one can only rely on those when they say ‘I promise’.
You can’t be chasing all the time. Sometimes you’ve got to let it come to you.
I don’t know what I’m doing, I don’t know what I’m saying. I’m just happy to be here.
When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
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.
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.
I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.
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.
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
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.
How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.
It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.
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.
I’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
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.
Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.
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.
When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.
I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.
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.
I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
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.
My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!
I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
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.’
I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
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.
I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.
