Brad Pitt Quotes

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.

If I want something, I go after it.

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

I've always been very self-motivated.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That was his way of seeing the game. You've done it, now move on. People might say, 'Well, when can you enjoy it?' But it worked for me because, in the game, you need to be on your toes.

In a way, I'm overly ambitious, selfish in a way. I think because I am so active, I think that's what keeps my brain going and I can bounce things off of each other.

I'm not going to sit on the couch in my house and expect everything to come, I know that I must continue to work hard.

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

When I see what I want, I do it.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.

I'm one of those people who always needs a mountain to climb. When I get up a mountain as far as I think I'm going to get, I try to find another mountain.

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic.

The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.

I just always wanted to stay busy.