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Brad Pitt, born on December 18, 1963, is an internationally renowned actor. Known for his unique charm and acting skills, he has won the admiration of audiences worldwide. Pitt's acting career began in 1987 with television roles, and he began to make a name for himself in the film industry in the 1990s, with his breakthrough performance in '12 Monkeys' in 1995. Since then, he has become one of Hollywood's top actors, thanks to films like 'Fight Club' and 'Troy'. In the 2000s, Pitt reached the peak of his career with films such as 'Gladiator' and 'The Departed', earning multiple international awards.

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“To leave home. It’s gotta be worth leaving.”

Life Home Leaving Home

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“If all of these nuts could just make phone calls it could spread insanity oozing through telephone cables...”

Mental Health Bob Critical Thinking Alcoholics Anonymous Movie Quote 12 Monkeys

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“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be more lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

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“Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.”

Reality Chickens Feathers Butts

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“I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be - cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world.”

World Nations Easy Poverty Gone Cost Cures Luxury Cents

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“I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.”

Quitting I Quit

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“I've always paid attention to religion because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.”

Thinking Felt Religious Attention Sacrifice Grew Grew Up Paid Backgrounds Goats

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“I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.”

Trying Wells Made New Things Pact Satanism

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“I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all”

Years Masters Tabloids Zen Master

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“You know I've been in these tabloids for years now. And at some point you just become a Zen master of it all. Most of these stories, you get probably 2 percent real fruit juice and the rest is just garbage with no nutritional value.”

Real Stories Values Percent Fruit Garbage Juice Fruit Juice

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“Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It's kind of a more of a comedic-actiony film. And then we just started Ocean's [12] Monday. Or I did anyways.”

Kind Film Ocean Monday Comedic

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“We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life.”

Men Stills Bigs Checks

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“You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.”

Ifs Knows Looks Stories Guy Turns Ridiculous Bad Guys Good Guy

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“Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.”

Stories Seems Today Literature Intention Theme Projection

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“Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.”

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“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.”

Believe Doe I Believe Understanding Decision Situation I Believe In Dialogue Journalism Bridges Gaps Dynamics

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“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.”

Thinking Mean Would Be Jobs Left Wish Careers Keys Empty Be Good Good Job

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“No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.”

I Can Choices Parent Mistake Responsible Blame Excuse My Mistakes

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“It's boredom. No other reason than that.”

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“I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.”

Religious Grew Grew Up Great Relationship

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“Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment.”

Ifs Men Feels Littles I Can Accomplishment Little Things Sense Of Accomplishment

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“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.”

Littles Bits Hours Common Months Little Bit Relax Working It Chunks

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“I look at my kids and I feel I'm at the precipice of this job, like just kind of tipping over the other side. I'm very conscious of time I guess is what I want to say, and I want to be there as long as I can with my kids, and I also want to make sure I do all the things that are important to me.”

Want Feels Looks Kind Long I Can Important Kids Jobs Sides Conscious Precipice Tipping

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“There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.”

Stories Certain Products Gun Aspect Pointing Assassination Bounty Hunted

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“[Robert] Ford had the idea that through fame he would receive some personal validity, but he didn't. I feel that these are not the main themes, but certainly themes that are at play in this film [Assassination of Jesse James].”

Feels Ideas Play Film Fame Theme Assassination Validity

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“I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of The Assassination of Jesse James] and felt quite prepared walking into it.”

Years Stories Film Felt Walking Prepared Scripts Luxury Intimate Assassination Andrew Good Years

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“Jesse [James] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious - however, he perpetuated this myth. Our film [The Assassination of Jesse James] really takes place at the end of all that, the last year of his life, at the end of all that celebrity.”

Years Kind Ends Character Lasts Film Known Myth Last Year Exploits Hood Assassination Robins Dubious Robin Hood

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“The choice or decision to take on a film certainly isn't calculated as far as doing something that will be successful against something that will have a smaller audience. It's all a gamble to me, I don't bet on the horses; I just go with the story that speaks to me and that I feel strongly about which is this one [The Assassination of Jesse James].”

Feels Stories Film Choices Speak Decision Audience Successful Horse Being Successful Gamble Assassination

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“I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly true with some of my favourite films that might relate to this [The Assassination of Jesse James] film in terms of cadence like Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, or McCabe & Mrs Miller or Days of Heaven. I found them 10 to 20 years after they were made.”

Years Made Might Kids Film Found Belief Heaven Term Week Opening Relate Favourite Assassination Good Films Cadence

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“My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking.”

Thinking Found Quality Concern Categories Filmmaking

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“I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.”

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“Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.”

Firsts Done Window Available Family Comes First

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“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.”

World Artist Actors Walks Discovery

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“There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.”

Family Life Changing Fatherhood

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“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Done Voice Findings Discovery

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“It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect... You know, I'm in.”

Knows Made Hard Enough Film Certain Turns Actors Forget Know How Directors

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“You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.”

Way Fall Easy Caricatures Easy Way

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“We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.”

America Used Strong Ideals Marketing Very Strong

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“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.”

Needs Stories America Certain Sides Involved Protect Perception Picks Get Involved

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“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.”

People Knows Wells Democracy Study Issues Daily Life Crucial Surviving

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“Each misstep leads to the next correct step.”

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“Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing”

Motivational Would Be Pain Suffering Hard Times Pain And Suffering Without Pain

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“We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.”

Products Lifestyle Obsession Consumers

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“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.”

Trying Littles Sometimes Fit Conscious Who I Am Intimate Emulate De Niro

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“I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.”

Ifs Art Walks Pieces Direct Architecture Thrilling

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“For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.”

Stories Film Life Experience Filling Filling In

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“I don't want to die without scars.”

Want Dies Scar Wanting To Die

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“You are not the car you drive.”

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“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.”

Knows Want Humans Understanding Grace Human Nature Elegance Exquisite Ethereal Mesmerizing Understanding Why

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“Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!”

Firsts Fighting Clubs Welcome Movie Fight Club Novel

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Born: December 18, 1963
Known for: Actor
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