Brad Pitt talks life and love
August 8th 2009 09:58
In a remarkably candid interview with Parade magazine, Hollywood legend Brad Pitt has opened up about his life with Angelina Jolie and their six children. Here are the highlights, but you can click here for the full interview.
On Real Love.
"Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own. I like to put it that way: trumps your own. Love of somebody else - of family, of your kids - becomes the most important, most worthwhile thing in your life. It's what you foster and protect. You have to recognize real love when it's there and know that in going after it there is always risk. To live with love, you have to chance losing it. That's also true when you decide to have kids. It's the risk you take for love."
On Why He Won't Marry Angelina... Yet.
"I have love in my life, a soul mate - absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it - hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment."
On Being a Family Man.
"I don't know who or what is meant to be in my life, but this is certainly where I want to be. Here with them. I think this is the pinnacle. Even as I'm bound to this thing, in a way I'm freer than I've ever been."
On What's Important in Life.
"As I've gotten older I've become aware that time is fleeting. I don't want to waste whatever I have left. I want to spend it with the people I love, and I want to do things that really mean something."
Brad Pitt can next be seen on the big screen in Quentin Tarantino's new masterpiece Inglourious Basterds, hitting Aussie cinemas on August 20th, 2009.
On Real Love.
"Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own. I like to put it that way: trumps your own. Love of somebody else - of family, of your kids - becomes the most important, most worthwhile thing in your life. It's what you foster and protect. You have to recognize real love when it's there and know that in going after it there is always risk. To live with love, you have to chance losing it. That's also true when you decide to have kids. It's the risk you take for love."
With Angelina in 2009
On Why He Won't Marry Angelina... Yet.
"I have love in my life, a soul mate - absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it - hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment."
On Being a Family Man.
"I don't know who or what is meant to be in my life, but this is certainly where I want to be. Here with them. I think this is the pinnacle. Even as I'm bound to this thing, in a way I'm freer than I've ever been."
The Brangelina clan in 2008
On What's Important in Life.
"As I've gotten older I've become aware that time is fleeting. I don't want to waste whatever I have left. I want to spend it with the people I love, and I want to do things that really mean something."
Brad Pitt can next be seen on the big screen in Quentin Tarantino's new masterpiece Inglourious Basterds, hitting Aussie cinemas on August 20th, 2009.
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Comment by Janet Collins
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Not that I know either one of them enough to judge but they both just seem the perfect match to me.
Comment by Journeywoman
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As for those women's mags, I can't decide whether they're more insulting to the subjects for making up ludicrous stories about them, or the readers for assuming that they'll believe what's written. Hopefully one day, people will just stop buying them.
Cheers for the comment.