Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, Reeves began acting in theatre productions and in television films before making his feature film debut in Youngblood (1986). He had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), and he later reprised his role in its sequels. He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho (1991) and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break (1991) and Speed (1994). These Keanu Reeves quotes will motivate you.
Motivational Keanu Reeves Quotes
- “You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “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
- “Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.” ~ Keanu Reeves
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“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “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. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.” ~ Keanu Reeves , Keanu Reeves quotes on love
- “Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you’ve created your world, with actions of your body, speech, and mind. When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.” ~ Keanu Reeves
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“Life is good when you have a good sandwich.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people…I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn’t feel like I fit in.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “All the dreams I dream are nightmares and those nightmares are the ones I live.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “You need to be happy to live, I don’t.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “I’m older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn’t be our style. … Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory… lasts forever.” ~ Keanu Reeves
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“I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “There’s nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can’t help it. I’m just a cliché of myself.” ~ 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
- “When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.” ~ Keanu Reeves
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“I thank the earth and the sky every day for the opportunities I’ve had.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “And it’s easy to stay grounded. The ground is very close. And we walk on it every day.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.” ~ Keanu Reeves , Keanu Reeves quotes on money
- “Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal
with it and say, ‘It’s gone, and I’m better.’ They’re wrong.” ~ Keanu Reeves - “Multi-culture is the real culture of the world – the pure race doesn’t exist.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.” ~ Keanu Reeves
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“The impact of falling in love for the first time has a special place in our architecture.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask – you are exhibiting your past life on your body.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us… sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve – whether it’s looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things but yeah I can imagine that you can kind of – I think it depends on one’s psychological state. I think there are some people who are on the internet and can fall in love and seem to be in a certain psychological state and other people who are – who couldn’t quite do that.” ~ Keanu Reeves
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“It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don’t think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK for me. But I could argue both sides. Why shouldn’t people own them? I’m not fundamentally against citizens having access to a weapon but I think it has complications. It’s probably not the wisest idea. Obviously, it has consequences. Personally, I do not own a weapon.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “You’re playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can’t move… you can’t breathe… because you’re in over your head. Like quicksand.” ~ 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
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“I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “A relationship is an imaginative act, it’s an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “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.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “What sort of girls do I like? – They are all angels.” ~ Keanu Reeves , Keanu Reeves quotes on girls
- “Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “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.” ~ 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
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“You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.” ~ 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
- “In my quiet, I was working something out.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “I attempt to connect with my muse and go on demon rides.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.” ~ Keanu Reeves
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“When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit, and what the story wants to tell. That’s really what inspires me.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “There’s a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it’s drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there’s a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “I hope I get the bliss. And I know I’m going to have to work for it. But I’ve got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say “secular religiosity”? … I don’t have a denominational sight.” ~ Keanu Reeves
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“It’s hard to act in the morning. The muse isn’t even awake.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our – to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “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.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person, or an object.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “‘Speed’ and ‘Point Break’ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‘The Matrix Trilogy’ had a lot of fights and wirework and green screen elements.” ~ Keanu Reeves
