Top 150 Brad Pitt Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I haven’t known life to be happier.”

— Brad Pitt

102. “When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn’t a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of Self.”

— Brad Pitt

103. “Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn’t harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.”

— Brad Pitt

104. “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

105. “I know when I go outside, there’ll be a van or two and they’ll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I’m just going across town and I know they’re just wasting their day, so it doesn’t bother me anymore.”

— Brad Pitt

106. “I spent the ’90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.”

— Brad Pitt

107. “Perhaps we don’t need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That’s enough for me.”

— Brad Pitt

108. “I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense – how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don’t.”

— Brad Pitt

109. “I’m most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It’s easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we’ve got Irish heritage where I come from.”

— Brad Pitt

110. “When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn’t know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.”

— Brad Pitt

111. “Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality.”

— Brad Pitt

112. “I look at my kids and I feel I’m at the precipice of this job, like just kind of tipping over the other side. I’m very conscious of time I guess is what I want to say, and I want to be there as long as I can with my kids, and I also want to make sure I do all the things that are important to me.”

— Brad Pitt

113. “Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren’t baseball insiders.”

— Brad Pitt

114. “One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.”

— Brad Pitt

115. “By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.”

— Brad Pitt

116. “Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.”

— Brad Pitt

117. “I look and there’s our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they’re brothers and sisters, man. They’re brothers and sisters and it’s a sight for elation.”

— Brad Pitt

118. “I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.”

— Brad Pitt

119. “The kids ask about marriage. It’s meaning more and more to them. So it’s something we’ve got to look at.”

— Brad Pitt

120. “There’s nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.”

— Brad Pitt

121. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

122. “I dare make those comparisons, but we often said ‘the making of’ would be as interesting if not more interesting than the film.”

— Brad Pitt

123. “The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.”

— Brad Pitt

124. “New Orleans has a real spirit. It’s the most authentic of all American cities.”

— Brad Pitt

125. “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.”

— Brad Pitt

126. “Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.”

— Brad Pitt

127. “My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking.”

— Brad Pitt

128. “Most of these stories, you get probably 2 percent real fruit juice and the rest is just garbage with no nutritional value.”

— Brad Pitt

129. “I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.”

— Brad Pitt

130. “You just have to get one misstep – that’s an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.”

— Brad Pitt

131. “We, in America, love a story – we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.”

— Brad Pitt

132. “How many stories have you read that aren’t true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don’t split up, there’s a whole new round that we’ve made up and we’re back together again!”

— Brad Pitt

133. “Illiada by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer’s intentions. It didn’t seem like we had come very far.”

— Brad Pitt

134. “When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.”

— Brad Pitt

135. “I believe you make your day. You make your life.”

— Brad Pitt

136. “Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it’s a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we’ll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit.”

— Brad Pitt

137. “Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn’t be doing instead of what you should be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental. This Prop.8 thing just drives me mental.”

— Brad Pitt

138. “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 Pitt

139. “I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.”

— Brad Pitt

140. “I’ve been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all.”

— Brad Pitt

141. “You hear stories of intense actors who can’t shed their character and who don’t know who they are for a week or two after. I’m not that guy, man.”

— Brad Pitt

142. “Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it’s hard to make your peace with.”

— Brad Pitt

143. “For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.”

— Brad Pitt

144. “I know some of these guys who are in that ‘stalkerazzi’ world, and you really have to separate them from the paparazzi in our industry. That’s another breed. They have their heroes who got the big, scandalous shot, which just promotes more of that.”

— Brad Pitt

145. “Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she’s a versatile actor.”

— Brad Pitt

146. “You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.”

— Brad Pitt

147. “I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don’t know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, ‘Well, why don’t they get to go to Heaven then?’”

— Brad Pitt

148. “We in America have some grand ideals – and some very strong ideals – but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.”

— Brad Pitt

149. “I grew up on certain movies, 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.”

— Brad Pitt

150. “When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn’t really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.”

— Brad Pitt