I`ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

It`s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

I`ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

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

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don`t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

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.

[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.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew`s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo`s choice to know the truth. It`s a beautiful, beautiful story.

And I had a great time making Reloaded and Revolutions. It`s great that people are coming out to see the films and I hope they enjoy them.

It`s fun to be hopelessly in love. It`s dangerous, but it`s fun.

I`m a meathead. I can`t help it, man. You`ve got smart people and you`ve got dumb people.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

[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.

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.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

[when told he`d have to "bite the bullet"] Yes, but I don`t have to eat the whole rifle.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you`re Tom Jones.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it`s not like I am hopeless.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

[On River Phoenix] River was a remarkable artist and a rare human being. I miss him every day.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn`t have come up out of the water.

Because we`re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I`d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I mean, if you didn`t get it or if you didn`t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

[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 judgment on you.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

[On drugs] I`ve had wonderful experiences. I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About a different perspective -- help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

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.

I`m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

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.

When the people you love are gone, you`re alone.

[when asked if he had any fears] I used to have nightmares that they would put "He played Ted" on my tombstone.

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

I`ve had wonderful experiences. I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About a different perspective -- help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.

I used to have nightmares that they would put "He played Ted" on my tombstone.

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.

River was a remarkable artist and a rare human being. I miss him every day.

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. (about river phoenix death)

“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`m Mickey Mouse. They don`t know who`s inside the suit.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

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.

When I don`t feel free and can`t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

My name can`t be that tough to pronounce!