219 Quotes by Keanu Reeves

Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It’s a drag, but necessary.

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 was hopeless at high school – I failed everything but Latin...

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’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and if they like you, and that is important in terms of considering a role. Choosing a role is all about whether I relate to the role and the story really. That’s the criteria.

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.

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.

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.