Top 262 Quotes & Sayings by Brad Pitt
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.
I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.
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.
Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.
Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting.
It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'
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.
Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
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.
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.
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.
I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.
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.
I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.
The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.
Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.
I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.
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 start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.
We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.
You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
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.
With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.
Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.
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.
You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.
I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.
I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.
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.
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.
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.
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
My life has been about big changes.
I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.
I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.
I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.
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.
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.
I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
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?
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.
I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.
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.
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.
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.
We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.
I just don't like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.
My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.
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.
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.
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.
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
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