Top 150 Brad Pitt Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The things you own end up owning you.”

— Brad Pitt

2. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

3. “Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.”

— Brad Pitt

4. “The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it.”

— Brad Pitt

5. “Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.”

— Brad Pitt

6. “Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!”

— Brad Pitt

7. “You must lose everything in order to gain anything.”

— Brad Pitt

8. “You don’t really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.”

— Brad Pitt

9. “I do not suffer from Autism, but I do suffer from the way you treat me.”

— Brad Pitt

10. “There’s no right. There’s no wrong. There’s only popular opinion.”

— Brad Pitt

11. “Hitting bottom isn’t a weekend retreat, it’s not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!”

— Brad Pitt

12. “The woman is the reflection of her man.”

— Brad Pitt

13. “America is not a country, it’s a business.”

— Brad Pitt

14. “I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.”

— Brad Pitt

15. “We are a generation of men raised by women. I’m beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.”

— Brad Pitt

16. “You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.”

— Brad Pitt

17. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

18. “I didn’t understand this idea of a God who says, “You have to acknowledge me. You have to say that I’m the best, and then I’ll give you eternal happiness. If you won’t, then you don’t get it!” It seemed to be about ego. I can’t see God operating from ego, so it made no sense to me.”

— Brad Pitt

19. “Democracy doesn’t work unless the public is informed.”

— Brad Pitt

20. “I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.”

— Brad Pitt

21. “By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.”

— Brad Pitt

22. “You are not the car you drive.”

— Brad Pitt

23. “No more excuses. I can’t blame anything on my parents. I’m responsible for my mistakes and my choices.”

— Brad Pitt

24. “Each misstep leads to the next correct step.”

— Brad Pitt

25. “Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing.”

— Brad Pitt

26. “I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.”

— Brad Pitt

27. “This is our last chance to make a difference. If you’re like me, you don’t want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?”

— Brad Pitt

28. “I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.”

— Brad Pitt

29. “Cate Blanchett is mesmerizing. I don’t know why. It’s beyond my understanding. Why we all want to work with her is she elevates the rest of us. She’s just got some ethereal grace and elegance that’s beyond me, and an acute understanding of human nature. She’s just exquisite. She’s otherworldly.”

— Brad Pitt

30. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

31. “I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.”

— Brad Pitt

32. “Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.”

— Brad Pitt

33. “The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!”

— Brad Pitt

34. “With sons and fathers, there’s an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.”

— Brad Pitt

35. “Do you know how you tell real love? It’s when someone else’s interest trumps your own.”

— Brad Pitt

36. “We’re consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession...”

— Brad Pitt

37. “I grew up very religious, and I don’t have a great relationship with religion.”

— Brad Pitt

38. “Equality, absolutely, that’s what defines us. It’s what makes us great. If it doesn’t sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that’s us. We’re equal.”

— Brad Pitt

39. “A man inserted an ‘ad’ in the classifieds: “Wife wanted”. Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: “You can have mine.””

— Brad Pitt

40. “I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.”

— Brad Pitt

41. “It’s boredom. No other reason than that.”

— Brad Pitt

42. “Oh, I’ll never leave Montana, brother.”

— Brad Pitt

43. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

44. “Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.”

— Brad Pitt

45. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

46. “In Missouri, where I come from, we don’t talk about what we do – we just do it. If we talk about it, it’s seen as bragging.”

— Brad Pitt

47. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

48. “Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.”

— Brad Pitt

49. “My kids are just waiting for me at home. I’m their father. They’re wondering, ‘When’s Daddy coming home?’”

— Brad Pitt

50. “Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.”

— Brad Pitt