Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
BRAD PITTYeah. 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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There’s no right. There’s no wrong. There’s only popular opinion.
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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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Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
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I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.
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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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My family worry for me because I’m gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire.
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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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I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.
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We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home
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I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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Each misstep leads to the next correct step.
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Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.
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It’s a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.
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I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.
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I haven’t known life to be any happier.
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Equality, absolutely, that’s what defines us. It’s what makes us great. If it doesn’t sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that’s us. We’re equal.
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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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There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I’m responsible.
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This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.
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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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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 is a Bleet, man.
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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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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 don’t want to die without scars.
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