Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves

15 quotes

Few Canadian actors have been quoted as widely as Keanu Reeves (b. 1964), whose insights reach well beyond their original context. Their reputation for his leading roles in action films, his amiable public image, and his philanthropic efforts lends every quote an extra layer of authority. Our collection holds 22 quotes from Keanu Reeves, each offering a different angle on Experience, Relationship, Movies, Hope, and Women. One standout: "Grief changes shape, but it never ends."

“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.”

— Keanu Reeves

Women

All Quotes by 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

Experience

“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

Amazing

“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.”

— Keanu Reeves

Women

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”

— Keanu Reeves

Sympathy

“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.”

— Keanu Reeves

Experience

“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

Movies

“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.”

— Keanu Reeves

Dating

“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.”

— Keanu Reeves

Knowledge

“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

Funny

“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.”

— Keanu Reeves

Age

“I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.”

— Keanu Reeves

Change

“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

Hope

“When the people you love are gone, you're alone.”

— Keanu Reeves

Alone

“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

Religion

“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

Art