Brad Pitt Quotes

I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

I want to be an actress, not a personality.

Get them to sing your song, and then they will know who you are.

Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'

I'm the guy that no one knows, but everyone's like, "You're that guy in that film thing."

I think gender plays a part in most things, but I don't know how it would be different because I've never been a man. And my fame is different from Nicole Kidman's or Sharon Stone's. I think everybody's fame is different.

Film is an avenue that I really want to explore more. I’ve learned that my personality is quite impulsive and spontaneous, so the idea that I could play a character for six months and then play something else immediately after is really appealing to me.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against? I've had so much freedom, sometimes it was hard. My parents wanted to protect me, but they had no idea how to. I had to learn as I went and make my own mistakes. I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I am - which is not to say that that's a bad thing.

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

I used to be able to be in England and just be fine. No one had any idea who I was.I get a lot more abuse in England.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

Being an artist and having a following can be a very scary thing because idolization makes you question your inner role in the universe. A lot of people get caught up in this idea of, "Wow! This world does revolve around me," and it most certainly does not. It's the exact opposite; these people don't exist for you, you exist for them.

Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.

Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on.

I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

Being the beloved is our identity, the core of our existence. It is not merely a lofty thought, an inspiring idea, or one name among many. It is the name by which God knows us and the way He relates to us