Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
BRAD PITTFame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
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I haven’t known life to be any happier.
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Each misstep leads to the next correct step.
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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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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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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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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 think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
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You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.
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You dont know someone until you know what they want.
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Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
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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’m not a big proponent of happiness. I think it’s highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There’s so much value in that. You can’t have one without the other.
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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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Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
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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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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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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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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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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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America is not a country, it’s a business.
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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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You can’t trap justice. It’s an idea, a belief.
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I’ve been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all.
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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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I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.
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