Keanu Reeves Quotes

If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Success
  • Strange
  • Quick

• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Worry

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Look
  • Alive
  • I Can

• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Appreciate

• I've always been fond of acoustic music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Fond

• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Children
  • Book
  • Write

• The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Fire

• Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • She
  • Man
  • Wife

• Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Amazing
  • Wisdom

• I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • God
  • Writing
  • Why

• If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Dance

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Work
  • Live
  • Wish

• Tara: No more talk of gloomy Angel, though. Only happy thoughts. Sunshine, picnic, that spell we did last night. With the oil?

  

  Amber Benson
  • Happy
  • Night
  • Thoughts

• Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Community
  • Better

• I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.

  

  Paolo Nutini

• The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and hospitals that human beings have different values depending on their income status.

  

  Uwe Reinhardt
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Health

• If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Science
  • Action
  • Ideas