Brad Pitt Quotes

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.

When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.

I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to.

I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.

My formative years were in Jersey and I'm kind of Jersey at heart.

When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up.

I came out at 17.

I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.

In my mind, I'm still this kid from St. Louis, Missouri, that nobody really knows.

The Harbor Area is everything - Carson, Wilmington, San Pedro, Long Beach, that whole little bubble that I grew up in. I always throw it up after I finish fighting, I always throw up the Harbor Area. Out of pride. It made me who I am. It brought me my goods; it brought me my bads. It molded me into who I am.

Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music reconnected me to my roots.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.

My music is about identity.

Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.

My parents were born and raised in Iowa and my two brothers were born in Iowa before my family moved to California where I was born so I still really feel like I have those Midwestern roots.

London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.