Brad Pitt Quotes

You can't always let people do their own thing.

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

My staff are pretty protective, it drives me nuts. I like to just do my own thing, that's pretty well it.

Of course it would disgust me to tell anyone how to live.

When you have your own place, you set your own rules.

I've had enough of being public property.

I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.

You have to be patient. I'm not!

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to something which is said of us or to us. We may experience it when people don't behave the way we want them to behave. Perhaps it comes when we have to wait for something longer than we expected. We might feel angry when others can't see things from our perspective. There seem to be countless possible reasons for anger….If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry.

Who gets to decide what you want?

I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

I just don't like being told what to do.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.