I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said ‘We saw your movie.’ ‘Which one?’ I said. He shouted ‘Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn’t like? – Brad Pitt
‘The Assassination of Jesse James’ remains one of my favorite films that I’ve done. You know, it’s still labeled a loser. – Brad Pitt
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
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. – Brad Pitt
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
I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it’s about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up. – Brad Pitt
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
I’m satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much. – Brad Pitt
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
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
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
I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself. – Brad Pitt
It’s hard to be surprised by a film. It’s hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you’ve seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I’m watching someone’s movie, or when I don’t know how someone made a certain turn that I didn’t expect . . . You know, I’m in. – Brad Pitt
My affliction has been… I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it. – Brad Pitt
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
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
America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong. – Brad Pitt
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
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
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