Quotes from Brad Pitt

I just don't like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.

I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives.

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

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.

I believe you make your day. You make your life.

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

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.

If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.

At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled... until the next.

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

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

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

There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

I'm sure they're saddened by me, and I get frustrated with them. But I love them, and at the end of the day if they need me or if they need anything, I'm there for them. Family.

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

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.

I haven't known life to be any happier.

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

I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.

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 would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.

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