Brad Pitt

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

I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well. ”

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. ”

I grew up on 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. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see. ”

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with. ”

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. ”

I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. ”

I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side. ”

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. ”

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