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 fucking 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
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
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
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
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
There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible. - 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
There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost. - Salman Rushdie
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. - Salman Rushdie