Welcome to our collection of Brad Pitt Quotes. Brad Pitt is an award-winning actor and producer, who has starred in some of the biggest films of all time. His acting career has spanned decades, and his roles have ranged from romantic leading man to action hero. He is also an outspoken advocate for a variety of causes, and his words have inspired many. Here, you’ll find some of his most memorable quotes, on topics ranging from life and love to hard work and success.
Best Brad Pitt Quotes
“A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss…That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.”
◼”Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
◼”Family – and certainly kids and a stable relationship – is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.”
◼”Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.”
◼”I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don’t discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that’s very telling.”
◼”I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what’s more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.”
◼”I just don’t like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.”
◼”I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.”
◼”I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don’t know how to explain it more. It’s universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain – not pain, arguments. I’ve grown quite comfortable with being at war.”
◼”In Missouri, where I come from, we don’t talk about what we do – we just do it. If we talk about it, it’s seen as bragging.”
◼”It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.”
◼”Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.”
◼”When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn’t a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self.”
◼”You must lose everything in order to gain anything.”
Famous Brad Pitt Quotes
◼”Actions speak louder than words, and it’s no more true than with your kids.”
◼”I always knew I was going somewhere – going out. I just knew….I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.”
◼”I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.”
◼”I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense – how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don’t.”
◼”I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.”
◼”I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said ‘We saw your movie.’ ‘Which one?’ I said. He shouted ‘Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn’t like?”
◼”I’m probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You’ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.”
◼”I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.”
◼”It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story – we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.”
◼”Just the fact that there is an unknown (in regards to death) and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That’s enough for me.”
“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.”
◼”The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.”
◼”There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I’m responsible.”
◼”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.”
◼”You can’t be different for different’s sake, and this doesn’t always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it’s not truthful, don’t waste your time.”
Inspirational Brad Pitt Quotes
◼“America is not a country, it’s a business.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Any love involves loss, and that’s the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I’m with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course maybe, this time together is extraordinary.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Cate Blanchett is mesmerizing. I don’t know why. It’s beyond my understanding. Why we all want to work with her is she elevates the rest of us. She’s just got some ethereal grace and elegance that’s beyond me, and an acute understanding of human nature. She’s just exquisite. She’s otherworldly.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Democracy doesn’t work unless people are well informed, and I don’t know that we are. People just don’t have the time. Most people’s daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don’t have time to really study [crucial] issues.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Do you know how you tell real love? It’s when someone else’s interest trumps your own.” ~ Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt quotes on love
◼“Each misstep leads to the next correct step.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Equality, absolutely, that’s what defines us. It’s what makes us great. If it doesn’t sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that’s us. We’re equal” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Get into something that’s really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren’t, because it left me empty, so I didn’t do a good job anyways. I think that’s what’s key to what we do: It’s got to be personal.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.” ~ Brad Pitt”
“I believe you make your day. You make your life.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“I don’t want to die without scars.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“I don’t want to waste time being angry at someone I love.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.” ~ Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt quotes on life
◼“I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don’t discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that’s very telling.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.” ~ Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt quotes on friends
◼“I keep hearing I’m a crazy party guy… I’m not. I’m boring… At least by party standards.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don’t know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, ‘Well, why don’t they get to go to heaven then?’ And the answer was always, ‘Well, everyone gets a chance – meaning at the word of God as it was described to me then. And that didn’t sit well with me then. But in times of trouble or discord, it’s a great comfort. And it wasn’t till I left home that I really came to the conclusion that it didn’t make sense to me for many other reasons.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“I’m probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You’ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“I’ve always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“In Missouri, where I come from, we don’t talk about what we do – we just do it. If we talk about it, it’s seen as bragging.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“It’s a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged; let us be loud; let us be bold.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it’s a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we’ll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I’m free. I’m not looking back.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“No more excuses. I can’t blame anything on my parents. I’m responsible for my mistakes and my choices.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate. I’ve always been very aware of that, more conscious of who I am, how I fit in the thing as opposed to trying to emulate someone else. Though, sometimes I try to emulate De Niro all the time, who is someone I could never be.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you’re figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it’s not worth doing – it’s already done. I’m interested in finding people who I think have a voice – and a very specific voice.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“The best moments can’t be preconceived. I’ve spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“The idea that marriage has to be for all time – that I don’t understand.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“The things you own end up owning you.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“The woman is the reflection of her man” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“There’s no right. There’s no wrong. There’s only popular opinion.” ~ Brad Pitt
“There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I’m responsible.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn’t a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I’m capable enough to handle any situation. There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I’m responsible.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“You are not the car you drive.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“You don’t really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“You dont know someone until you know what they want.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“You must lose everything in order to gain anything.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I’m a f***ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I’m here for entertainment, basically, when you whittle everything away. I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.” ~ Brad Pitt
◼“Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.” ~ Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt quotes about his life
“I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.” – Brad Pitt
◼“I’m a bit of a loner, you know? I’m quieter by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I’m probably more reserved.” – Brad Pitt
◼“I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.” – Brad Pitt
In Missouri, where I come from, we don’t talk about what we do – we just do it. If we talk about it, it’s seen as bragging.” – Brad Pitt
◼“Listen, I’ve been pretty fortunate. And if I’ve been underrated, it’s actually been something I’ve been able to work with; I can surprise people. It sets me up to exceed expectations, so I don’t mind.” – Brad Pitt
◼“My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn’t want things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.” – Brad Pitt
◼“My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I’m free. I’m not looking back.” – Brad Pitt
My life has been about big changes.” – Brad Pitt
◼“When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn’t know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.” – Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt quotes about his family
◼“A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.” – Brad Pitt
◼“Actions speak louder than words, and it’s no more true than with your kids.” – Brad Pitt
◼“At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled… until the next.” – Brad Pitt
◼“Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.” – Brad Pitt
Family – and certainly kids and a stable relationship – is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.” – Brad Pitt
◼“Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.” – Brad Pitt
◼“I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.” – Brad Pitt
“I don’t feel restless, I just like to travel.” – Brad Pitt
◼“I don’t think I was all that late in becoming a father.” – Brad Pitt
◼“I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.” – Brad Pitt
◼“I spent the ’90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.” – Brad Pitt
◼“I tell all the young guys, don’t make choices because somebody else is telling you it’s good from a career-maintenance perspective.” – Brad Pitt
◼“I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.” – Brad Pitt
◼“I’m sure they’re saddened by me, and I get frustrated with them. But I love them, and at the end of the day if they need me or if they need anything, I’m there for them.” – Brad Pitt
◼“If I’m going to work, I want to work with my wife.” – Brad Pitt
◼“My kids are just waiting for me at home. I’m their father. They’re wondering, ‘When’s Daddy coming home?’” – Brad Pitt
◼“The best moments can’t be preconceived. I’ve spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.” – Brad Pitt
◼“What we’re seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.” – Brad Pitt
◼“When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms – I think because I had that kind of Wonder Bread look and my hair always went into place. I kept saying, ‘I’m not good at sitcoms. I don’t know how to do that.’” – Brad Pitt
◼“You want to stake your own claim. You don’t want to be called a copycat.” – Brad
Verdict
Brad Pitt quotes have inspired many people throughout the years, and will continue to do so for many more years to come. His words are wise and humorous, and they provide insight into his life and his journey. No matter what the circumstances or situation, Brad Pitt’s quotes will always be a source of motivation and inspiration.