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Brad Pitt Quotes

Total quotes: 43
“For me every misstep has been a step toward epiphany, understanding, some kind of joy. Yeah, the avoidance of pain is a real mistake.”
— Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt Talks Divorce, Quitting Drinking, and Becoming a Better Man
Tagged: Pain, Pain Makes You Stronger
“Here we go again. Fighting for resources. What the hell am I doing here?”
— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: Resources, Monotony, Hell
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: Freedom, Loss
“We shouldn't think we can. How do we show American exceptionalism? By example. It's the same as being a good father. By exemplifying our tenets and our beliefs, freedom and choice and not closing borders and being protectionists.”
— Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt Talks Divorce, Quitting Drinking, and Becoming a Better Man
Tagged: American Exceptionalism
“My favorite movie is the worst-performing film of anything I've done.”
— Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt Talks Divorce, Quitting Drinking, and Becoming a Better Man
Tagged: Art and Commerce, Passion and the Marketplace, What We Love Does Not Always Make Money, brad pitt, cover story, gq style
“Our fathers were our models for God, if our fathers failed, what does that tell you about God?”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: God, Role Models, Failure
“Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat. It's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: Hitting Bottom, Weekend Retreat, Seminar, Letting Go
“I do what I do because of my dad. He was a hero. He gave his life for the pursuit of knowledge. Because up there is where our story is going to be told.
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— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: Dad, Hero, Knowledge, Story, Heaven
“I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I'm free in all the ways that you are not.”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: Freedom, Arrogance
“This is your pain. This is your burning hand. It's right here. Look at it.”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: Pain, Burning Hand
“Billy Beane: Would you rather get one shot in the head or five in the chest and bleed to death?

Peter Brand: Are those my only two options?”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: bad choice, shot in the head
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. ”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: Consumerism, Advertising
“First you've gotta know—not fear, know—that someday you're gonna die.”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: Fear, Mortality
“You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose. And I hate losing, Chavy. I hate it. I hate losing more than I even wanna win.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: Winning, Losing
“Roy McBride: Can I have a blanket and pillow?

Female Flight Attendant: Certainly, that will be $125.”
— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: blanket, pillow, price-gouging
“I’ve been trained to compartmentalize. It seems to me that’s how I approach my life.”
— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: Compartmentalized
“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with?”
— Brad Pitt, Meet Joe Black
Tagged: Movie Quotes, Relationships, Love
“Which means, if we're right, people lose homes, people lose jobs, people lose retirement savings, people lose pensions.”
— Ben Rickert, The Big Short
Tagged: Finance, The Big Short, Wall Street, Housing Market
“People on their deathbeds don't talk about what they obtained or were awarded. They talk about their loved ones or their regrets—that seems to be the menu.”
— Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt Talks Divorce, Quitting Drinking, and Becoming a Better Man
Tagged: Death, Dying, Quote of the Moment, brad pitt, cover story, gq style
“I think I spent a lot of time avoiding feelings and building structures, you know, around feelings.”
— Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt Talks Divorce, Quitting Drinking, and Becoming a Better Man
Tagged: Structure, Denial, Avoiding Emotions, brad pitt, cover story, gq style
“Delusion is not going to let you go. You're going to get smacked in the face.”
— Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt Talks Divorce, Quitting Drinking, and Becoming a Better Man
Tagged: Extreme Personalities, Pushing It Too Far
“If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs. People lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number—every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?”
— Ben Rickert, The Big Short
Tagged: Banking, Numbers, retirement pensions, Savings
“The earth put its hopes in him, and now its fate is on me.”
— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: Earth, hopes, Fate, pressure
“Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: Pain, Sacrifice
“Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.”
— Don 'Wardaddy' Collier, Fury
Tagged: Best Military Movies, Ideas, Peaceful, History, Violence
“Why go on? Why keep trying?”
— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: Despair
“I always wanted to become an astronaut, for the future of mankind and all. At least that’s what I always told myself. I see myself on the outside, smile, present a side. It’s a performance, with my eye on the exit. Always on the exit. Just don’t touch me.”
— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: Astronaut, future of mankind, Smile, Performance, Exit
“I recall how we used to watch black and white movies together. Musicals were you favorite. I remember you tutoring me in math. You instilled in me a strong work ethic. You should know I’ve chosen a career that you would approve of. I’ve dedicated my life to the exploration of space, and I thank you for that.”
— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: Black and White Movies, Musicals, Math, Work Ethic
“If we are God's unwanted children, so be it!”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: Rejects, Castaways, Lepers, God's Unwanted Children
“We're consumers. We are the byproducts of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: Consumers, consumer culture, Murder, Crime, Poverty, Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra
“Ship Med Tech: Please begin your psychological evaluation as best you can. Please describe your current mental and emotional state.


Roy McBride: I am feeling good, ready to do my job to the best of my abilities.”
— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: psych eval
“He’d captured strange and distant worlds in greater detail than ever before. They were beautiful, magnificent, full of awe and wonder. But beneath their sublime surfaces, there was nothing. No love or hate. No light or dark. He could only see what was not there, and miss what was right in front of him.”
— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: Space Exploration, magnificent, strange, distant, Awe, Wonder
“Yale, economics, baseball. You're funny.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“You guys said you wanted to get rich, now you're rich.”
— Ben Rickert, The Big Short
Tagged: Finance, The Big Short, Wall Street, Housing Market
“It's an unfair game. Now we've been gutted, organ donors for the rich. Bostons taking our kidneys. Yankee's taking our heart. You guys are taking the same old good body nonsense like we're selling jeans. Like we're looking for Fabio.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“General Rivas: What can you tell us about the Lima Project?


Roy McBride: Its objective was to search for advanced extraterrestrial life. The ship disappeared approximately sixteen years into the mission.


General Rivas: And the commander was?


Roy McBride: He was my father, sir.”
— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: Lima Project, Extraterrestrial Life
“I'm steady, calm. I slept well, no bad dreams. I am active and engaged. I'm aware of my surroundings and those in my immediate sphere. I'm attentive. I am focused on the essentials, to the exclusion of all else. I'm unsure of the future but I'm not concerned. I will rely on those closest to me, and I will share their burdens, as they share mine. I will live and I will love.”
— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
Tagged: Steady, calm, nightmares, Future, Love
“It's a misconception that a girl has to do something to catch a guy's attention. It just happens. There are no tricks. In fact, when you have to get tricky, it's not worth it. You know what makes a guy take notice? If you don't let him disrespect you. If some guy makes a stupid remark and a girl doesn't let it get to her because she knows who she is - then she's won.”
— Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt And Teen People
Tagged: Dating Advice, Guy Advice, Relationship
“Gentlemen, welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: You DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB! Third rule of Fight Club: Someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: no shirts, no shoes. Seventh rule: Fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: Fighting, Rules, Snitching
“Hi, you're gonna call off your rigorous investigation. You're gonna publicly state that there is no underground group, or, these guys are gonna take your balls. They're gonna send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times, press release style. Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on: we cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances, we guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us.”
— Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tagged: Threats, new york times, LA Times, Castration
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