Quotes from Brad Pitt

To leave home, it's got to be worth leaving.

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.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

You don't really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.

'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

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.

I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.

It might be a very human thing across the board, but 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.

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

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.

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 to life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.

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

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

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.