"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."

"My name can't be *that* tough to pronounce!"

"When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it."

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

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

[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."

[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.

"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.

"I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit."

"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'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."

"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 just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water."

"I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer."

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

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