Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
BRAD PITTThere’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I’m responsible.
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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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We’re consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.
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I haven’t known life to be any happier.
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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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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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You dont know someone until you know what they want.
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I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].
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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
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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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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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My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I’m free. I’m not looking back.
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I don’t feel restless, I just like to travel.
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You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.
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Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t want to waste time being angry at someone I love.
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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 embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.
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You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.
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I don’t want to die without scars.
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I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what’s more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.
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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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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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