Welcome to Keanu Connection, a fansite dedicated to Keanu Reeves. You may know Keanu from such movies as The Matrix trilogy, Constantine, Speed and most recently Street Kings, just to name a few. We are dedicated to bringing you all of the latest news stories, images, media clips and more..
Quotes
“Where the beautiful people eat, drink and play pool until the early hours, my friends own the place.”
“I AM normal… any other perception is a lie, leads to madness.”
“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.”
“I’m no babe magnet…”
“When I act, I’m free.”
"You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.”
“I hopefully be a good actor one of these days.”
“Either you like me or you don’t.”
“Do know that I am the critics’ whipping boy.”
“When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it”
“I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.”
“To perform Shakespeare you get to say very profound words and in the body it feels more thrilling. Your spirit, your intellect, your heart and your voice. I have to say I prefer Shakespeare to the action stuff.”
“You know what is a nice thought? Retirement. That’s what we’ve got to look forward to. An hundred of movies in the can and time to relax on the warm beach.”
“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”
“My name can’t be *that* tough to prounounce.”
“When told, “You’ll just have to bite the bullet”, his reply was, “Yes, but I don’t have to eat the whole rifle.”
“I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.”
“I don’t look like a classic North American.”
The worst part is really the food. In Europe, you order something you think will be safe, like a club sandwich. Then it comes out with raw bacon and fish instead of turkey, and it’s swimming in mayo.”
“I’m pretty boring. I just read, play hockey, play music.”
“What would I do if I wasn’t an actor? (long pause) Uhh, ‘Can I take your order please?’ (long pause) I don’t know what I’d do. (long pause) I would like to think I’d be some kind of (long pause) I don’t know!”
“I didn’t have one big trauma- my problem was that I was a lot of different people when I was a teenager. I started out pretty quiet and reserved, which was a problem at my school. I had to work my way out of my shyness.”
On fame: “I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.
“I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives — help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.”
on his use of Drugs, Feb 2001, Vanity Fair
on his use of Drugs, Feb 2001, Vanity Fair
“I used to have nightmares that they would put ‘He played Ted’ on my tombstone.”- said during an interview when the interviewer asked Keanu if he had any fears.
“On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.”
“I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there’s free beer.”
“I just felt that if I went into that picture [Speed 2], I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.”
“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.”
“It can still be very surreal. 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 judgement on you.”
“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.”
(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 River Phoenix) “River was a remarkable artist and a rare human being. I miss him every day”.
(On River Phoenix and My Own Private Idaho (1991)) “We were doing I Love You to Death (1990), and we got the Idaho script. We were driving in a car on Santa Monica Boulevard, probably on the way to a club, and were talking really fast about the whole idea. We were excited. It could have been like a bad dream, a dream that never follows through because no one commits, but we just forced ourselves into it. We said “Okay, I’ll do it if you do it. I won’t do it if you don’t.” We shook hands. That was it”.
“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 judgement on you.”
“I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.”
“Do they? I don’t know. I haven’t checked it out, you know. I don’t like go home and like…”Google” me. ~ Keanu, when told fans document his every move online”
“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.” - About Diane Keaton
“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,”
About Keanu, from his friends
“He was like a big St. Bernard puppy. You thought if you had thrown a ball, he would have gone and fetched it.”
Actress Glenn Close about meeting Keanu Reeves on the set of Dangerous Liaisons.
Actress Glenn Close about meeting Keanu Reeves on the set of Dangerous Liaisons.
“Keanu Reeves - what a doll. Here’s this guy, who’s like a god to so many people, who’s such a well-raised, respectful gentleman.”
Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton
“I don’t see any goofball in Keanu. Nothing. He’s not goofy, but he’s very funny. He’s very humorous, he’s very intelligent, he’s very gentle, he’s very sweet, and he’s just one of the most generous people that I know.”
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith
On being asked who the best Hollywood hockey player is: “I’m going to have to say Keanu Reeves as a goaltender, because he’s a pretty good goalie, one of the best goalies I’ve ever seen. He’s stacking the pads, riding across, giving you the corner and then taking it away with the glove hand. He’s really quick and really good.”
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
“He doesn’t want to be famous.”
Jon Favreau
Jon Favreau
“Keanu Reeves, the person, has a sort of void. He’s a guy sort of needing something, looking for something.”
“Hardball” director Brian Robbins
“Hardball” director Brian Robbins
“I took Keanu Reeves to Australia for a few stadium shows, and he played the Forum with us in LA. We don’t usually need support acts, but we wanted one there so I threw him the opportunity. I didn’t hear him play one note in the half dozen shows he played with us because I’m usually warming up at that time.”
Jon Bon Jovi - Playboy Magzine, Aug 2001
Jon Bon Jovi - Playboy Magzine, Aug 2001
“You know a lot of people give Keanu Reeves shit, I know I was one of them until I saw The Matrix then I just wanted to apologize for everything that I had ever said about him, he was just working away at his goal not listening to any of the assholes like me, and he fucking did it man. I just love The Matrix, and Zhou Zhao looks like Keanu if Keanu was less awesome and more intense.”
Quentin Tarantino, Aug 2001
Quentin Tarantino, Aug 2001
“Which actors out there are computer generated? Keanu Reeves looks like… totally real to me.”
David Duchovny, June 1999
David Duchovny, June 1999
“I like working with young actors, and he’s become one of the best. Keanu is hardworking, highly professional and always prepared.”
Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman
“To me there’s two sides to Keanu, There’s probably a million sides to Keanu! There’s a side to him that you feel like he’s an incredibly brought up young man and enormous fun to be with. There’s another side to him that completely blocks everything and everyone out. He’s very determined and single-minded. There are days when he is one of these characters and other days when he’s another, so you kind of learn which one of those people he is on a particular day and either leave him alone or approach him.”
Hugo Weaving on working with Keanu
Hugo Weaving on working with Keanu
“He’s a great kisser”
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock
“He’s like my older brother”
River Phoenix
River Phoenix
“He’s cleverer than some of the dons at Cambridge.”
Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz
“I realise now that I was a bit over-hysterical about him at the time. I was in gushy mode and also I was getting really sick of everyone saying he was just a bimbo. He’s not, he’s very bright, but obviously he’s not cleverer than any don. I think he’s quite happy with people thinking he’s stupid, so I don’t know why I was doing his PR for him. It was a bit over the top, wasn’t it?”
Rachel Weisz, confronted about her last quote, about a year later. 1997
Rachel Weisz, confronted about her last quote, about a year later. 1997
Keanu’s really funny and very comfortable with his body. That made it much easier for me when we had to do these really intense love scenes.”
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron
“I’d pay to see Keanu Reeves in leather trousers and I think a lot of other people would as well.”
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh
“The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells–and he smelled real nice.”
Sandra Bullock on her on-screen chemistry in “Speed” with Keanu
“Then I saw Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing and I knew if he can do it, I can do it, too.”
Leonardo diCaprio
“Keanu has James Dean charisma, that troubled youth/pent-up sexuality quality. He’s a beautiful man in an androgynous way.”
Toronto photographer David Hlynsky
Toronto photographer David Hlynsky
