William Bradley Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company, Plan B Entertainment. Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise.
This is the motivational success story of Brad Pitt. This is the story of how He battled depression, addictions and went from being a chicken mascot to an Oscar Winner and one of the most successful actors in Hollywood. Here is how..
He grew up watching a lot of films with family, so his passion for acting slowly started to grow. After finishing high school he started started studying journalism. But only two weeks before graduating, he dropped out of college and decided to take a leap of faith and pursue his dream to became an actor. So with $325 in his pocket he moved to Los Angeles.
When he arrived in the city it was not easy for Him to find work as an actor and had to depend on all kinds of odd jobs to survive.
One of those odd jobs was wearing a big yellow chicken suit and standing outside a restaurant. He would spend hours in his chicken costume in an extremely hot weather handing out flyers.
He also spent several months driving a limousine, he worked as a pool boy, as a furniture mover, he was also delivering refrigerators and at the same time he was trying to make it as an actor.
Today, he is one of the most successful actors and producers in Hollywood. He's been named the sexiest man alive, twice. He has won an Oscar as a producer, 2 Golden Globes, and many other awards. Brad Pitt is known for movies like Fight club, Seven, 12 years a Slave and many more. And his incredible performance in "Once upon a time in Hollywood" reminded us of his amazing talent.
But during his rise to fame he suffered from depression. And He turned to charity work for an answer.
He is also familiar with addictions. his alcoholism began to get out of control because of the problems and the feelings he wasn't dealing with for years. His divorce with Angelina Jolie has been a wake up call that he need to finally sober up and take back control of his life. As he quit drinking for good, he also started going to therapy, to deal with his deeper issues.
List Of Top 127 Brad Pitt Quotes
1. Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em. Brad Pitt
2. 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
3. It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself. Brad Pitt
4. 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. Brad Pitt
5. I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up. Brad Pitt
6. We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same. Brad Pitt
7. 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
8. 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? Brad Pitt
9. 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
10. 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
11. Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed. Brad Pitt
12. My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?' Brad Pitt
13. 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
14. 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. Brad Pitt
15. My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it. Brad Pitt
16. I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. Brad Pitt
17. 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
18. I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination. Brad Pitt
19. You must lose everything in order to gain anything. Brad Pitt
20. Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen. Brad Pitt
21. I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me. Brad Pitt
22. 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
23. With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. Brad Pitt
24. 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
25. I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise. Brad Pitt
26. I've been no stranger to change. Brad Pitt
27. It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of celebrity, where suddenly people are looking for you to pick your nose or get a shot of you kissing some woman. It's a very discombobulating thing. Brad Pitt
28. 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. Brad Pitt
29. Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life. Brad Pitt
30. 'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth. Brad Pitt
31. 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
32. I don't feel restless, I just like to travel. Brad Pitt
33. My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back. Brad Pitt
34. Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me. Brad Pitt
35. 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! Brad Pitt
36 . The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on. Brad Pitt
37. 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
38. 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?' Brad Pitt
39. Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids. Brad Pitt
40. I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved. Brad Pitt
41. In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way. Brad Pitt
42. I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself. Brad Pitt
43. I grew up on 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. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see. Brad Pitt
44. 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
45. To be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous. Brad Pitt
46. 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
47. I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right. Brad Pitt
48. 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
49. I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion. Brad Pitt
50. I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well. Brad Pitt
51. I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore. Brad Pitt
52. 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. Brad Pitt
53. I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. Brad Pitt
54. That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together. Brad Pitt
55. 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. Brad Pitt
56. I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost. Brad Pitt
57. 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. Brad Pitt
58. I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism. Brad Pitt
59. I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. Brad Pitt
60. I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation. Brad Pitt
61. 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
62. I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud. Brad Pitt
63. 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. Brad Pitt
64. My life has been about big changes. Brad Pitt
65. I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father. Brad Pitt
66. 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. Brad Pitt
67. 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. Brad Pitt
68. I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Brad Pitt
69. 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. Brad Pitt
70. 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 for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life. Brad Pitt
71. I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself. Brad Pitt
72. America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong. Brad Pitt
73. 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. Brad Pitt
74. Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace. Brad Pitt
75. I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there. Brad Pitt
76. 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. Brad Pitt
77. Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor. Brad Pitt
78. 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. Brad Pitt
79. 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. Brad Pitt
80. I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life. Brad Pitt
81. 'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser. Brad Pitt
82. 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. Brad Pitt
83. 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
84. 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. Brad Pitt
85. I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there. Brad Pitt
86. It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up. Brad Pitt
87. 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. Brad Pitt
88. I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much. Brad Pitt
89. 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. Brad Pitt
90. 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! Brad Pitt
91. 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. Brad Pitt
92. 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. Brad Pitt
93. Depression is not interesting to watch. Brad Pitt
94. I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film. Brad Pitt
95. If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife. Brad Pitt
96. There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together. Brad Pitt
97. I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there. Brad Pitt
98. My training is documented on film. Brad Pitt
99. 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. Family. Brad Pitt
100. I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself. Brad Pitt
101. To leave home, it's got to be worth leaving. Brad Pitt
102. Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate. Brad Pitt
103. You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat. Brad Pitt
104. 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. Brad Pitt
105. I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act. Brad Pitt
106. I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either. Brad Pitt
107. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. Brad Pitt
108. I think someone's conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private. Brad Pitt
109. I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived. Brad Pitt
110. Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large. Brad Pitt
111. I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they're telling the story at the end of the day. Brad Pitt
112. 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
113. 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
114. If I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.Brad Pitt
115. 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. Brad Pitt
116. 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. Brad Pitt
117. The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Brad Pitt
118. 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. Brad Pitt
119. I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.Brad Pitt
120. 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. Brad Pitt
121. I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side. Brad Pitt
122. We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says. Brad Pitt
123. 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. Brad Pitt
124. I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently. Brad Pitt
125. Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive. Brad Pitt
126. What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever. Brad Pitt
127. I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are. Brad Pitt
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