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.
BRAD PITTBeing married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
More Brad Pitt Quotes
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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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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 don’t want to waste time being angry at someone I love.
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You are not the car you drive.
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My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I’m free. I’m not looking back.
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You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.
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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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I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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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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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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You dont know someone until you know what they want.
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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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Democracy doesn’t work unless people are well informed, and I don’t know that we are. People just don’t have the time. Most people’s daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don’t have time to really study crucial issues.
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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
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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 always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
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Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing
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I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.
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My family worry for me because I’m gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire.
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I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].
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I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
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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’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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Each misstep leads to the next correct step.
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I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.
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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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