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.
BRAD PITTYou must lose everything in order to gain anything.
More Brad Pitt Quotes
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I haven’t known life to be any happier.
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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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Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
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America is not a country, it’s a business.
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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 must lose everything in order to gain anything.
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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 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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The idea that marriage has to be for all time – that I don’t understand.
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Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
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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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We’re consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.
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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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I’ve always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.
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You can’t trap justice. It’s an idea, a belief.
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