Explore Quotes by Brad Pitt

To be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous.

I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.

I grew up on particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see.

Family - and certainly kids and a stable relationship - is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.

I think someone's conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private.

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

I've been no stranger to change.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

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.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.

Listen, I've been pretty fortunate. And if I've been underrated, it's actually been something I've been able to work with; I can surprise people. It sets me up to exceed expectations, so I don't mind.

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.

Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large.

My training is documented on film.