Top 150 Brad Pitt Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

52. “What’s valuable to me has become clearer as I’ve got older. To me, it’s about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.”

— Brad Pitt

53. “I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.”

— Brad Pitt

54. “I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.”

— Brad Pitt

55. “My family worry for me because I’m gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire.”

— Brad Pitt

56. “You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.”

— Brad Pitt

57. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

58. “Actions speak louder than words, and it’s no more true than with your kids.”

— Brad Pitt

59. “Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.”

— Brad Pitt

60. “By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.”

— Brad Pitt

61. “I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.”

— Brad Pitt

62. “Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.”

— Brad Pitt

63. “I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.”

— Brad Pitt

64. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

65. “It may be a brief interruption – just a few seconds – but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called ‘emergency.’ Don’t be so damn selfish.”

— Brad Pitt

66. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

67. “When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms – I think because I had that kind of Wonder Bread look and my hair always went into place. I kept saying, ‘I’m not good at sitcoms. I don’t know how to do that.’”

— Brad Pitt

68. “I don’t think I was all that late in becoming a father.”

— Brad Pitt

69. “It’s a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.”

— Brad Pitt

70. “I’ve had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I’ve seen the detriments of poverty and I’ve gone on to see how easy the cures can be – cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world,.”

— Brad Pitt

71. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

72. “Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment.”

— Brad Pitt

73. “I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.”

— Brad Pitt

74. “I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I’ve had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.”

— Brad Pitt

75. “There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I’m responsible.”

— Brad Pitt

76. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

77. “I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we’d sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.”

— Brad Pitt

78. “I’d like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.”

— Brad Pitt

79. “Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.”

— Brad Pitt

80. “Basically when you whittle everything away, I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.”

— Brad Pitt

81. “My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn’t want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.”

— Brad Pitt

82. “You can’t trap justice. It’s an idea, a belief.”

— Brad Pitt

83. “I embrace the messiness of life, I find it so beautiful actually.”

— Brad Pitt

84. “My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I’m free. I’m not looking back.”

— Brad Pitt

85. “When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.”

— Brad Pitt

86. “There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, ‘Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.’ They go, ‘Eww, gross!’ But we demand it.”

— Brad Pitt

87. “Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate. I’ve always been very aware of that, more conscious of who I am, how I fit in the thing as opposed to trying to emulate someone else. Though, sometimes I try to emulate De Niro all the time, who is someone I could never be.”

— Brad Pitt

88. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

89. “I don’t feel restless, I just like to travel.”

— Brad Pitt

90. “Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment.”

— Brad Pitt

91. “I loved ‘Saturday Night Fever’ when I was a kid. I couldn’t believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn’t understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.”

— Brad Pitt

92. “I don’t want to waste time being angry at someone I love.”

— Brad Pitt

93. “The idea that marriage has to be for all time – that I don’t understand.”

— Brad Pitt

94. “I’m 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that’s it. I don’t think I’ll ever be hip again!”

— Brad Pitt

95. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

96. “I always liked film as a teaching tool – a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn’t on the list of career options where I grew up.”

— Brad Pitt

97. “I am very interested in architecture. I’ve been asked if I’d ever direct, but me, I’d rather build. It’s very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.”

— Brad Pitt

98. “Where I grew up – we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri – it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.”

— Brad Pitt

99. “Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.”

— Brad Pitt

100. “Fame is a Bleet, man.”

— Brad Pitt