Top 100 Brad Pitt Quotes
#1. No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.
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#2. I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.
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#3. I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
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#4. Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike ... it gives you a chance to read 'em.
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#5. I haven't known life to be happier.
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#6. The woman is the reflection of her man
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#7. I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore.
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#8. You can't trap justice. It's an idea, a belief.
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#9. If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the influence or endangering others, shouldn't a person have that right?
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#10. I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. America is not a country, it's a business.
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#15. Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.
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#16. In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.
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#17. My life has been about big changes.
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#18. I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.
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#19. Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
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#20. You don't really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.
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#21. It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.
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#22. This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?
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#23. 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.
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#24. Listen, I've been pretty fortunate. And if I've been underrated, it's actually been something I've been able to work with; I can surprise people. It sets me up to exceed expectations, so I don't mind.
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#25. The kids ask about marriage. It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at.
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#26. My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking.
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#27. I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.
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#28. Equality, absolutely, that's what defines us. It's what makes us great. If it doesn't sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that's us. We're equal
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#29. You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.
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#30. Depression is not interesting to watch.
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#31. I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.
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#32. 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.
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#33. We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.
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#34. I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.
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#35. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.
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#36. 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.
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#37. All My Bitches Are Mad At Me Right Now.
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#38. 'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.
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#39. Oh, I'll never leave Montana, brother.
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#40. I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.
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#41. Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition.
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#42. It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.
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#43. 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.
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#44. I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.
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#45. 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.
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#46. I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.
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#47. If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.
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#48. I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
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#49. 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.
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#50. Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough
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#51. I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.
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#52. When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.
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#53. I like Billy Beane for his idiosyncrasies - that he can't watch the games without getting too emotional, that he often has food down his shirt, that he tends to break a few chairs now and then.These things make him human.
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#54. I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.
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#55. 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?
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#56. We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.
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#57. You are not the car you drive.
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#58. I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.
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#59. 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.
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#60. What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.
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#61. I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.
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#62. Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.
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#63. I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.
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#64. There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.
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#65. When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.
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#66. Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.
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#67. Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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.
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#70. I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.
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#71. There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.
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#72. My training is documented on film.
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#73. Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues.
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#74. I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all
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#75. Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
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#76. I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.
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#77. I'm sure they're saddened by me, and I get frustrated with them. But I love them, and at the end of the day if they need me or if they need anything, I'm there for them. Family.
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#78. By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.
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#79. I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.
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#80. I look at my kids and I feel I'm at the precipice of this job, like just kind of tipping over the other side. I'm very conscious of time I guess is what I want to say, and I want to be there as long as I can with my kids, and I also want to make sure I do all the things that are important to me.
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#81. Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
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#82. I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy ... I'm not. I'm boring ... At least by party standards.
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#83. Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
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#84. 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.'
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#85. I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.
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#86. There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, 'Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.' They go, 'Eww, gross!' But we demand it.
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#87. I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.
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#88. I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
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#89. I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.
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#90. I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.
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#91. It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.
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#92. I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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#93. You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.
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#94. I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
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#95. I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.
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#96. My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.
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#97. I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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#98. What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.
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#99. Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it's a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we'll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit.
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#100. Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.
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