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The Quotable Keanu Reeves
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Keanu Reeves' Famous Lines
flixster.actor.standard.02.162654049 - flixsterMovie/TV title: The Matrix
Character name: Neo
Quote(s): What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?
flixster.actor.standard.02.162654049 - flixsterMovie/TV title: Speed
Character name: Jack Traven
Quote(s): Miss, can you handle this bus?
Keanu as John ConstantineMovie/TV title: Constantine
Character name: John Constantine

Quote(s):
  • John Constantine: So when a half-breed breaks the rules, I deport their sorry ass straight back to hell. I don't get them all, but I've been hoping to get enough to ensure my... retirement.

  • [punches Gabriel across the mouth, she bows over, looking shocked]John Constantine: That's called pain. Get used to it.

  • John Constantine: I'm reading you your last rites.
  • Balthazar: Spare me your remedial incantations.
  • John Constantine: You do know what it is to truly be forgiven? To be welcomed into the Kingdom of God. Demon in heaven.[anoints Balthazar's brow with holy water]
  • John Constantine: I'd love to be a fly on that wall.
  • Balthazar: You're not a priest. You have no power.
  • John Constantine: Just tell me how Mammon is crossing over and you can go back to your shithole.[no response]
  • John Constantine: Okay, Bally, enjoy it.[begins reading from the Bible]
  • John Constantine: In nomine Patri, et Fili, et Spiritus Sancti. May God have mercy on you, and grant you the pardon of all your sins. Whosesoever sins you remit on Earth, they are remitted unto them in Heaven.[Balthazar squirms]
  • John Constantine: How's he doing it?Balthazar: No... I can't.
  • John Constantine: [louder] Grant your child entry into thy kingdom! In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Ame-!
  • Balthazar: [shouts] Sangre de Dio! The blood of God.John Constantine: He found it.
  • Balthazar: Whatever killed the Son of God will give birth to the Son of the Devil.
  • John Constantine: [closes the Bible] By the way... you have to *ask* for absolution to be forgiven... asshole.

  • On the Movie Constantine:
  • With Constantine , I think of it as a secular religiousness. The piece uses icons in a Catholic platform with heaven and hell and god and the devil, but I was hoping these concepts could become more humanistic that are hopefully relatable. It’s a man trying to figure it out. With the other roles, I think the hero journey or Siddhartha is a seeking that has some value to our lives. I think all of us in western traditions relate to the seekers and messiahs and heroes and anti-heroes. We all deal with that day to day and they are entertaining. I think they are worthwhile. Myth telling and story telling is always couched in this kind of engaging, entertaining manner, whether it’s a shadow play or a circle and a story teller. It’s all the same.


  • I really enjoyed the character, but in terms of embodying it, I worked with costumers and we tried on things and there were options. I found a jacket and shoes and it felt right. Then you go to rehearsals in costumes and it starts to feel connected and natural. When it feels right it is great. I knew his core, but I had to work on it. I lowered my voice and worked with the director and looked at the comic book and his deadpan humor. It kind of happened just a couple of days before we shot. The exorcism was the first scene and that helped a lot. I had to walk over and get on the bed and when I figured that out I felt like I had it.
  • On Smoking in the Movie:
  • Too much. It’s a character trait of the character. He’s dealing with a lot and it’s a tool to help numb himself. I smoke myself.

  • Spirituality of the character:
  • Spirituality is a word I don’t think applies to Constantine , he is more humanistic. There is more of a flesh and blood aspect. There is a line, “I guess there is a plan for all of us and I had to die twice to figure that out. Like the book says, he works his works in mysterious ways. Some people like it, some people don’t.” That is my line and that sums up where Constantine ends up. There is still that ambivalence, but there is that acknowledgement that he doesn’t understand it. He takes his life and he goes to hell, he comes back and he doesn’t know why.
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Keanu Reeves Quotes
  • My name can't be THAT tough to pronounce!Keanu

  • 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
  • I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.
  • I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.


  • I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.

  • I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.


  • 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.

  • [On being a star] It can still be very surreal. It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued be the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.


  • [On River Phoenix] You can't blame Hollywood for what happened to River. Kids are doing drugs everywhere in the world. He had his own very personal problems I will never discuss with the press. They're just way too personal. River had a self-destructive side to his personality. He was angry and hurt that he couldn't have a private life once he became famous. He just couldn't deal with having his private life on the front page all the time.


  • “On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.”
  • “I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.”

  • “One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, ... Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the pharmacology, do the psychology.”


  • “When I read in US Weekly the other day that she was fifty-nine, ... I was like, 'whoa, dude, no way she's old enough to be my mother.' Being with somebody that old is like committing incest, only you're not related.”


  • “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.”


  • “I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.”


  • “mirror that is an archetype of our own time and our own life.”


  • “I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil,”


  • “What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists! [People] burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real.”


  • “Even though they are such fantastical characters and situations, it's still a man trying to figure it out. These motifs of messiahs and heroes and anti-heroes, these journeys are things that we deal with in our day to day.”


  • 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.


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

  • Grief changes shape, but it never ends.


  • I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.


  • I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.


  • Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

  • 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.

  • 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.


  • 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.

  • When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

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

  • The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
  • (when told fans document his every move online)Do they? I don't know. I haven't checked it out, you know. I don't like go home and like..."Google" me.


  • When told, "You'll just have to bite the bullet", his reply was, "Yes, but I don't have to eat the whole rifle."

  • When I was 15 I asked my mother if I could be an actor and she said whatever I want. Three weeks later I was in acting school. I heard Anthony Hopkins say this, you learn it by doing it. It’s like painting I imagine. The craft of it and skill of it, the more you do it the better you get. For me it’s a love. A good day on the set collaborating for me is a hoot. I love it and hopefully I will continue.


Quotes About Keanu Reeves

  • Who said/wrote it:Roger Lewis, the Sunday Times critic.
  • Quote:"He quite embodied the innocence, the splendid fury, the animal grace of the leaps and bounds, the emotional violence, that form the Prince of Denmark...He is one of the top three Hamlets I have seen, for a simple reason: he * is* Hamlet."

  • Who said/wrote it:Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Quote:He is Zen-like. There is not one bit of movie-star ego in that guy."

  • Who said/wrote it:People Magazine
  • Quote: NO ONE KNEW THE GUY IN THE dirty wool cap and battered shin pads who showed up with Evan Williams at the vacant parking lot in Toronto one Sunday morning. But as long as the stranger could handle a hockey stick—and he could—it didn't matter. "This is an old friend of mine from out of town," was the only explanation Williams, a 31-year-old science teacher at Toronto's Upper Canada College, offered the 10 other road-hockey regulars. A few first-name introductions, a couple of handshakes, and the game was on.
  • "Hey, Keno, pass it!" shouted one player.
  • "Over here, Kinno!" called another.
  • "Kayinu?" ventured a fireman named Scott when Williams tried to help him sound it out.
  • "Kinuu?"
  • "Kahnee?"
  • "It was funny and kinda embarrassing,. He kept saying it over and over, and he kept getting it wrong."



  • Who said/wrote it: Kim Reeves (Keanu Reeves`s sister once said)
  • Quote:"My brother is my prince. He listens to every word, to every comma after every word, that you are saying."

  • Who said/wrote it: Vancouver Sun
  • Quote He is never less than interesting onstage
  • Who said/wrote it: Paula Warder, a teacher at Toronto's Jesse Ketchum Public School, which Reeves attended from kindergarten through eighth grade.
  • Quote: "I don't think he ever got to a class on time. And when he did arrive, he wasn't quite, well...with it. He always left his books at home or forgot his homework. But he'd just smile and go back home to get them. And somehow he did pass his classes."

  • Who said/wrote it: People Magazine
  • Quote:Reeves travels with no entourage, attends almost no Hollywood parties and is often practicing with his bar band Dogstar when he might be promoting his movies. "I don't want to be superfamous, man," he told New York's Newsday in 1991. "That would be awful.


  • Who said/wrote it:Dina Meyer, who played Reeves's bodyguard in Mnemonic.
  • Quote: "You look at him, and you can see the wheels are turning, but you can't figure him out—if he's happy, if he's sad...you just want to say, 'What's happening in there?' "

  • With a client list including David Bowie and Dolly Parton, his costume-designer mom was often called out of town at the last minute. Visiting stars dropped by, giving Keanu and his sisters a firsthand feel for late nights, loud parties—and celebrity rug wrestling.
  • Who said/wrote it: Reeves's childhood pal Williams.
  • Quote:"I remember once, Keanu and I trying to take on Alice Cooper.He tied us up like a human knot."


  • Who said/wrote it:Keanu` s childhood friend Shawn Aberle.
  • Quote: "He never talked about his real dad. If he ever came up in conversation, Keanu would change the subject. There was a lot of love in the family, certainly from the female side. But from the male side, Keanu got much more of a tough love. He felt a little bit alone."


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