You can’t trap justice. It’s an idea, a belief.
BRAD PITTI 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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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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Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
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Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.
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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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My family worry for me because I’m gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire.
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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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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.
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You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.
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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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I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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We’re consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.
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I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.
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You don’t really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.
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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.
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Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
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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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Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.
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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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There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I’m responsible.
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I believe you make your day. You make your life.
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Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it’s a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we’ll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit.
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Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I’ve come across at this point in my life.
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The things you own end up owning you.
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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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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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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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