You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.
BRAD PITTThe idea that marriage has to be for all time – that I don’t understand.
More Brad Pitt Quotes
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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
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Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
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Do you know how you tell real love? It’s when someone else’s interest trumps your own.
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I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
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It’s a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.
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You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
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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… To leave home, it’s got to be worth leaving. It’s got to be worth it.
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By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.
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America is not a country, it’s a business.
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You can’t trap justice. It’s an idea, a belief.
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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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I don’t feel restless, I just like to travel.
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I don’t want to die without scars.
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Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.
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I keep hearing I’m a crazy party guy. I’m not. I’m boring. At least by party standards.
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I’m not a big proponent of happiness. I think it’s highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There’s so much value in that. You can’t have one without the other.
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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.
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I’m probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You’ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.
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By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.
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I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
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Any love involves loss, and that’s the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I’m with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary.
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Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
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You are not the car you drive.
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I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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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’m interested in finding people who I think have a voice – and a very specific voice.
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