Quotes By Brad Pitt

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

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!

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.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.

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.

My life has been about big changes.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

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

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

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.

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