Brad Pitt Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
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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.
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You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.
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I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!
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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.
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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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Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
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I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
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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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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.
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I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.
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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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My training is documented on film.
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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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Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.
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In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.