385 Quotes by Brad Pitt

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

I’m not a big proponent of happiness. I think it’s highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There’s so much value in that. You can’t have one without the other.

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

There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, ‘Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.’ They go, ‘Eww, gross!’ But we demand it.

Where I grew up – we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri – it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

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.

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

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.

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.