Brad Pitt Quotes

Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn't be doing instead of what you should be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental. This Prop.8 thing just drives me mental

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

Depression is not interesting to watch.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

Family - and certainly kids and a stable relationship - is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

There's a constant chatter in our house, whether it's giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it. I love it. I love it. I hate it when they're gone. I hate it. Maybe it's nice to be in a hotel room for a day - 'Oh, nice, I can finally read a paper.' But then, by the next day, I miss that cacophony, all that life.

I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.

Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.

I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

My life has been about big changes.

The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

You can't trap justice. It's an idea, a belief.

You dont know someone until you know what they want.

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

Illiada by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of The Assassination of Jesse James] and felt quite prepared walking into it.

I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.

There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.

Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.

It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect ... You know, I'm in.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a fucking actor! They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment. Basically, when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.

Oh, I'll never leave Montana, brother.

I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.

Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.

Most of these stories, you get probably 2 percent real fruit juice and the rest is just garbage with no nutritional value.

I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

I'm gonna design my own fleet of trailers. No! I'm gonna record an album like Jennifer Lopez. It'll be an acoustic version of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Then maybe I'll design a line of clothes like Puff Daddy, but all in synthetic fur.

Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music ... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera.

Jesse [James]was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious - however, he perpetuated this myth. Our film [The Assassination of Jesse James ] really takes place at the end of all that, the last year of his life, at the end of all that celebrity.

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.

How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.

You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.

It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of celebrity, where suddenly people are looking for you to pick your nose or get a shot of you kissing some woman. It's a very discombobulating thing.

I know some of these guys who are in that 'stalkerazzi' world, and you really have to separate them from the paparazzi in our industry. That's another breed. They have their heroes who got the big, scandalous shot, which just promotes more of that.

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation.

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

I've always paid attention to religion ... because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.

Cate Blanchett is mesmerizing. I don't know why. It's beyond my understanding. Why we all want to work with her is she elevates the rest of us. She's just got some ethereal grace and elegance that's beyond me, and an acute understanding of human nature. She's just exquisite. She's otherworldly.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

To be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous.

At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled ... until the next.

When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms - I think because I had that kind of Wonder Bread look and my hair always went into place. I kept saying, 'I'm not good at sitcoms. I don't know how to do that.'

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they're telling the story at the end of the day.

I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.

The idea that marriage has to be for all time - that I don't understand.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side.

Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.

It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up [and] the next we can be sharing a pint. We continually devolve into conflict, no matter how much we evolve.