BRAD PITT

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

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.

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.

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.

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.

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

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

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.

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!

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.

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.

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.

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

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.