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.
BRAD PITTThere’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I’m responsible.
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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
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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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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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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 embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.
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I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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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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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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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 die without scars.
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I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.
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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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The things you own end up owning you.
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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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Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.
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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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I don’t feel restless, I just like to travel.
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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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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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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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I don’t want to die without scars.
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You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
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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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My family worry for me because I’m gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire.
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Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
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