I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.
BRAD PITTYou dont know someone until you know what they want.
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Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.
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The woman is the reflection of her man
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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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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.
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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
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When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn’t a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I’m capable enough to handle any situation. There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and that I’m responsible.
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The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
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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.
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Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn’t be doing instead of what you should be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental.
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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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The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.
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Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
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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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The things you own end up owning you.
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The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it.
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Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.
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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?
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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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You don’t really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.
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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.
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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 haven’t known life to be any happier.
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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.
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Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.
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The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!
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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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