Brad Pitt Quotes

Quote #1

“A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all."

Quote #2

“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."

Quote #3

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

Quote #4

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

Quote #5

“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.”  

Quote #6

"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."

 Quote #7

“You must lose everything in order to gain anything."

Quote #8

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

Quote #9

“Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen."

Quote #10

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

Quote #11

“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?"

Quote #12

“When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols."

Quote #13

“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."

 Quote #14

“That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together."

Quote #15

“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."

Quote #16

“I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from."

Quote #17

“I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong."

Quote #18

“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."

Quote #19

“I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling."

Quote #20

"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."

 Quote #21

“My life has been about big changes."

Quote #22

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

Quote #23

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

 Quote #24

"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."

Quote #25

“I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale."

Quote #26

“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."

Quote #27

“You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man."

Quote #28

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

Quote #29

"I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma."

Quote #31

“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."

Quote #32

“I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself."

Quote #34

“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."

Quote #35

“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."

Quote #36

“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."

Quote #37

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

Quote #38

“Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor."

Quote #39

“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."

Quote #40

“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."

Quote #41

“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."

Quote #42

“It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself."

Quote #43

“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."

Quote #44

“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."

Quote #45

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

Quote #46

“'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser."

Quote #47

“I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling."

Quote #48

“I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that."

Quote #49

“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."

Quote #50

“I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there."

Quote #51

“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."

Quote #52

“It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up."

Quote #53

“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."

Quote #54

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

Quote #55

“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!"

Quote #56

“Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids."

Quote #57

“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."

Quote #58

“My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'"

Quote #59

“The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead."

Quote #60

“Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings."

Quote #61

“Depression is not interesting to watch."

Quote #62

“When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears."

Quote #63

“With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you."

Quote #64

“If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife."

Quote #65

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

Quote #66

“My training is documented on film."

Quote #67

“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."

Quote #68

“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."

Quote #69

“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."

Quote #70

“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."

Quote #71

“To leave home, it's got to be worth leaving."

Quote #72

“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."

Quote #73

“It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses."

Quote #74

“My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it."

Quote #75

“I've been no stranger to change."

Quote #76

“You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat."