# Keanu Reeves

Keanu Charles Reeves (born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor, director, producer and musician.

## Quotes

* I like to be with my partner in the bed, to ride my Norton - and maybe it doesn't like me, and that's why I'm on the floor so often -, to play sports, to be with my friends and chat. And nature. It's wonderful to be lost in the desert, or between the waves over a surf board. I'm a life lover.
** March 1995
* 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. When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
** June 2006
* When we are uncomfortable or anything unpleasant happens, we look to take refuge in something. Usually, we turn to food, alcohol, sex, drugs, money, power, or relationships. But none of these things give us the lasting protection or satisfaction you're looking for. When you understand you can't find lasting happiness in Samsara, then the desire to find true refuge becomes strong. In Buddhism, we take refuge in the three jewels — the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. The Buddha is like the doctor who understands your disease and knows how to treat it; the Dharma, his teachings, is the medicine he prescribes; and the Sangha is the spiritual community that helps you to take the medicine. To take refuge is to finally seek protection from suffering in a way that can really help you. When we think about the ultimate nature of reality and what causes us to suffer — this is the true meaning of refuge.
** Discovering Buddhism, 2004
* We had filmmakers who you wanted to say yes to... [we had] material that you wanted to commit to, to give everything that you could to. (When asked why he agreed to return to the series after a nearly two-decade hiatus)
** As quoted in Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss resurrect a 20-year love story with The Matrix 4.0, by Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, November 30, 2021
* It's throwing down the Matrix gauntlet again; it's super smart, clever, entertaining, suspenseful, and funny.... Not that it needed it.. but certainly the depth of why this film got made is the sense of it being a love story between Trinity and Neo.
* It was one of those phone calls where even though you're at home, you stand up...(speaking about the conversation when Lana first told him about her idea for another sequel)
** As quoted in Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss resurrect a 20-year love story with The Matrix 4.0, by Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, November 30, 2021
* [While filming, Lana] was participating more with the movement of the camera, and more interested in doing than rehearsing. It was less about prep and more about everyone's readiness to find the unexpected in the moment...[ they] barely rehearsed, if at all.
** As quoted in Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss resurrect a 20-year love story with The Matrix 4.0, by Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, November 30, 2021
* It's Trinity! It's Carrie-Anne Moss, Trinity flavor. All the fierceness and mind, focus, commitment is there in the gestures. Untamed and wild and controlled. (Speaking to Moss in an interview)
** As quoted in Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss resurrect a 20-year love story with The Matrix 4.0, by Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, November 30, 2021
* If you're a lover, you've got to be a fighter, 'cause if you don't fight for your love, what kind of love do you have?
** As quoted in an Interview with Drew Barrymore, December 2021

## Quotes about

* Getting his picture taken doesn't rank high on Reeves' list of favorite things. It never has. But he looks up and smiles when a pair of comforting hands rest on his shoulders: They belong to Carrie-Anne Moss, his longtime costar from the Matrix movies, positioning herself behind him for the shot. There's an ease between them that comes from 20-plus years of friendship — a friendship that began in the late '90s when the pair met on the genre-redefining sci-fi film that turned out to be so influential, it single-handedly introduced phrases like "glitch in the Matrix" and "red-pilling" to the pop culture lexicon... Moss calls their connection effortless. "We've been through this experience together as partners," says the actress, 54. "The only way I can describe it is like a soul friendship." Their unique bond made 1999's The Matrix what it is today, and The Matrix, in turn, changed the course of moviemaking on the eve of a new millennium... Before Moss and Reeves change into their next outfits for the photo shoot, they slip away, catching up on each other's lives since making Resurrections. They push through the studio's back exit, flooding the darkened room with afternoon sunshine. Fans of the films might immediately think of the door of light, a portal Neo would use to slip into the digital "backdoor" of the Matrix.
** Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss resurrect a 20-year love story with The Matrix 4.0, by Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, November 30, 2021