Pitt: "You must lose everything in order to gain anything."

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."

Pitt: "I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree."

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise."

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says."

Pitt: "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."

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

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

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "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."

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

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "Depression is not interesting to watch."

Pitt: "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."

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

Pitt: "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."

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

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it."

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."

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

Pitt: "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."

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

Pitt: "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."

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

Pitt: "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."

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

Pitt: "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?"

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "All I know is what feels right. What's more important to me is being honest about who you are."

Pitt: "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."

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

Pitt: "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."

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

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive."

Pitt: "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."

Pitt: "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."