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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

Wrong Where Very

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

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You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

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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.

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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.

Love Great Family

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

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Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

Life Happiness Ted

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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.

Wrong Where Very

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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.

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Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Success You Wrong Thing

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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?

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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.

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

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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.

Life Were Wanted

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

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

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Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Life Family Very

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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.

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

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.

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.

There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.

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.

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

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 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?'

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.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

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.

Depression is not interesting to watch.