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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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“You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.”

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“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.”

Known Havens My Family Handful Close Friends Few Friends

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“I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.”

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“Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.”

Kids Action Speak Actions Speak Louder Than Words Actions Speak Louder

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“Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.”

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“I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.”

Trying Ducks Cacophony

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“I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal live.”

Thinking Too Much Focus Impossible Media Normal Normal Life

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“I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!”

Thinking Kids Wise Hips

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“Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.”

Wells Seems Growing Indian Cinema Pace

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“My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.”

Moments Looking Back Wraps

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“My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'”

Home Kids Father Waiting Wonder Coming Home Daddy

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“One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.”

Men Giving Kids Mom Great Mom

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“'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.”

Knows Stills Done Film Remains My Favorite Loser Assassination

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“With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.”

Father Son Connections Father Son Inexplicable Father And Son

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“You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.”

Knows Men Two Character Stories Guy Actors Week Intense Shed That Guy

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“Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.”

Has Beens Hard Capitalism Greed Criminals Behaviour Epidemics Repercussions Deregulation

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“How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!”

Made Whole Stories Together Fighting Married Rounds Splits Being Married Back Together True Story Splitting Together Again Back Together Again Splitting Up

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“I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.”

Way Ideas Film Careers Teaching Grew Grew Up Tools Lists Exposed

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“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.”

Sometimes Character Problem Approach Performances Mathematics Cracks

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“I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.”

Film Night Car Grew Summer Grew Up Profound Folks Storytelling Hood Oklahoma Missouri Summer Nights Profound Love

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“I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.”

Way Said Different Kids Wanted Certain Culture Particular Grew Grew Up Traveled Better Ways Different Cultures Missouri

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“I know some of these guys who are in that stalkerazzi world, and you really have to separate them from the paparazzi in our industry. This is another breed. And they have their heroes who got the big scandalous shot, and which just promotes more of that.”

Knows World Bigs Guy Industry Hero Shots Paparazzi Scandalous

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“I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.”

People Way Believe Whole Kids Film Night Culture Special Saturday Fever Saturday Night Special Places New Cultures Saturday Night Fever

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“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?'”

Knows World Wells Different Age Young Culture Heaven Curious Young Age Other Cultures Different Religions

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“I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.”

Easy Example Comfortable Southern Heritage Dialect

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“Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.”

People Littles Has Beens Made Helping Might Three Difficult Plans Materials Band Directors Screens Garage Mandates Plan B

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“Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn't last for me.”

Knows World Believe Littles Ends School Lasts Grew Comfort Grew Up High School Bigger Crisis Crash Comforting Alright Pads

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“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.”

Moments Remember Lines Perfect Rooms Expression Scene Timing Editing Delivery Facial Best Moments Facial Expression

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“What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.”

People Values Valuable

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“When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.”

Men Way Firsts Wanted Film Interest Hollywood Curse Pushing Sitcom

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“When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.”

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“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.'”

Thinking Knows Trying Firsts Looks Kind Wonder Know How Hair Bread Sitcom

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“When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.”

Firsts Jobs Known Periods Chairs Frank Lamps Paychecks Craftsman Day Jobs Wannabes

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“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.”

Knows Littles Asks Boys Tears My Family Indian Trails Family History Oklahoma Bloodline

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“When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.”

Littles Kids Grew Grew Up Moved Little Kid Kindergarten Missouri Tulsa

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“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.”

People Want Needs Firsts Ideas Helping Opportunity Careers Making Money Maintenance

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“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.”

Ideas Feelings Grew Grew Up Moved About Yourself Hubris Oklahoma Missouri True Feelings

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“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.”

Children Doe Dies Three Accepting Health Birth Drug Determine Satisfied Loud Your Children Seconds Child Abuse Outraged Abused Children Neglected Child

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Atheism Percent Atheist Agnostic No Point

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“I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.”

Beautiful Embrace Messiness

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“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.”

Ideas Moments Helping Next Dark Crazy Appreciate Fuel Perpetual Overrated Dark Moments

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“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.”

Life May Moments Lasts Beautiful Envy Mortals Doomed Achilles Fate In The Iliad Rage From The Iliad Achilles Fate Priam

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“Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.”

Feels Past Girl Walking Fame Workers Construction Construction Workers

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“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.”

Inspirational Self Enough Motivational Religion Understanding Loss Situation Comfort Capable Discovery Responsible Atheist Handle Here And Now Loss Of Faith

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“If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the influence or endangering others, shouldn't a person have that right?”

Ifs Want Persons Long Influence Drug Driving Marijuana Minors

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“I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.”

Way Too Much Sitting Smoking Hiding Marijuana Couches Dope Irritated Doughnut Hiding Out

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“By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.”

Doe Ends Time Poverty Tomorrow Died Extremes Evening Make Sense Concerts Ending Poverty Extreme Poverty

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“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.”

Writing Book Kids Taken Painting Perspective Dad Paint Extraordinary Best Things Fatherhood Extraordinary Things Having Kids

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“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”

Ifs Wells Ends Gay Equal Gay Marriage

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“Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.”

Needs Littles Baby Satisfaction Little Things

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Born: December 18, 1963
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 203

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