Keanu Reeves Quotes

I don't get to do a lot of fight scenes on 'Sanctuary,' but I'm a trained fighter; I've been doing martial arts for years and, you know, I'm very active physically; I used to be a circus performer.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

I've always been huge into martial arts.

I'm very, very, very interested in martial arts.

I have to know jiu-jitsu and wrestling, but I'm a boxing guy.

I think it's stupid to say a guy who has trained in jiu-jitsu for as long as I have is just a stand-up fighter. I have trained with some of the best black belts in the world. I am comfortable on the ground. I can fight wherever the fight goes and not be concerned.

I have a Gracie background and a Matt Serra background so I've always used jiu-jitsu but it takes a while to reach black belt level.

I'm really considering getting into amateur wrestling and getting into more tournaments. I'm looking into going to do some Jiu-Jitsu tournaments. I'm looking into everything.

I'm too long, I'm too rangy, I can box, I can kick, I can wrestle, I can do jiu-jitsu.

I train jiu-jitsu and judo with the best guys there is, and the best guys for ground and pound.

The techniques that you learn as a male fighter are the same techniques you learn as a female fighter.

Don't care about catch-wrestling. I only care about Jiu-Jitsu.

I'm not scared to go to the ground. I've been wrestling my whole life. I've done a lot of jiu jitsu, but I like standing up, and every fight starts there.

We're under Rigan Machado, who I think is one of the best jiu jitsu instructors at least in Los Angeles, if not in the world. We have a lot of his instructors here, as well as Japanese jiu jitsu, Japanese judo, and sambo. That was Keanu's [Reeves] recipe [in John Wick 2].

Every film, every fight choreographer, wants to have a different flair, have a different fight technique. So any film I've done that involved weapons has always been fascinating because everyone is different.

My three most impressive fights have been against black belts in jiu-jitsu.

I am a huge mixed martial arts practitioner.

I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well - the language of martial arts movie fighting. It's a different thing; it's a different kind of logic.

The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in China' series, where the fights have the eye-popping panache of dance sequences from a musical.

The most difficult part of portraying 'Darna' would probably be the timing when you do stunts. You have to look strong but you can't be too strong because you don't want to hurt the person you are doing the scene with.

My dad was able to wrestle so many great Japanese wrestlers.

MMA embodies a lot of disciplines of sports with footwork and with football, especially with the punching technique you get the hand and eye coordination.

My jiu-jitsu is very simple and basic.

People see a lot of my standup, and that's what I'm known for since I was trained in karate and kickboxing, but I also have ground game.

I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.