Quotes from Brad Pitt

The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

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

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

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.

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.

It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of celebrity, where suddenly people are looking for you to pick your nose or get a shot of you kissing some woman. It's a very discombobulating thing.

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.

I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.

I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side.

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

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."

Fame is a Bleet, man.

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

We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life.

Basically when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.

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.

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

Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing

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

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

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

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.

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

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.