Top 60 Brad Pitt Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Depression is not interesting to watch.

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

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

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

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

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

Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large.

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.

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.

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

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

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.

You want to stake your own claim. You don’t want to be called a copycat.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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’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.

It’s a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

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

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

If I’m going to work, I want to work with my wife.

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

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.

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.

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

I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

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.

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.

I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

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.

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 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.

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.’

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I guess I just don’t see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of ‘our team’s better than yours’ – it’s a high school idea. My kids don’t see those dividing lines, and I don’t want to either.

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.