I can't seem to find the original source of interviews being quoted by some tabs (M&C & Virgin). The quotes echo words he has said before but in the absence of a bonafide, verifiable source, they remain question marks.
From Monsters & Critics
Brad Pitt and Angelina JolieThe 48-year-old actor - who raises six kids, Maddox, 11, Pax, eight, Zahara, seven, Shiloh, six, and four-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, with his fiancee Angelina Jolie - is trying to enjoy every moment he can with his children because he knows they wont be young forever.
He said: 'I would describe it as a beautiful and controlled form of chaos. Sometimes you're tired and you kind of function on automatic but I really appreciate this time where the kids are still young and they're forming right in front of your eyes.
'I'm trying to enjoy it all because I know that one day I'm going to look back and they'll all be grown up and I'll miss this time.'
Brad and Angelina's older children have got used to travelling around the world with their busy parents, and the 'World War Z' star revealed the couple's youngsters love to create their own 'fantasy playgrounds' when they are staying in hotels.
He added: 'They're expert travellers. The older ones are getting very adept at packing up and taking along the books or toys they like to have with them wherever we're living. They know the routine by now and so it's much easier for me to organise everyone while Angie can pay more attention to getting the twins ready.
'They also love staying at hotels because it's this pretend world for them that they get to be part of. It's quite something to watch them create their own little fantasy playground wherever we go - running around, jumping, playing make-believe. I love it! Most of the time!'
From Daily Mail
Doting dad Pitt
Brad Pitt loves spending mornings with his six children. The actor is trying to enjoy every moment he can with his and Angelina Jolie's kids - Maddox, 11, Pax, eight, Zahara, seven, Shiloh, six, and four-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne because he knows they won't be young forever. "I would describe it as a beautiful and controlled form of chaos," he said. "Sometimes you're tired and you kind of function on automatic but I really appreciate this time where the kids are still young and they're forming right in front of your eyes." - showbizspy.comFrom OK Germany via entertainmentwise
Brad Pitt: 'I'm Blunt With Angelina Jolie When Something's Wrong'
Actor opens up about relationship with Hollywood siren
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are one of the hottest couple's in showbiz with many wondering how the hunk managed to tame the sultry sex symbol, who was once one of the wildest stars in Hollywood.
According to Brad he's not scared to stand up to his fiancee and can be “blunt” when they're is something wrong. The star, who is currently promoting new movie 'Killing Me Softly' told German OK! Magazine that he's not scared to stand up to Ang.
"We always say openly and sometimes bluntly if there is anything wrong. We are so unbelievably close to each other - in the way we think and the way we live," he revealed.
Speaking of what he loves about his partner of seven years, who he has six children with, Brad went on: "And I admire Angie for her ability to stay cool in times of crisis, she always knows the answer. I'm much more unbalanced in that way! But these are the things I'm learning from her - at least I try."
(WENN)
With such a spotlight on their relationship Brad admitted at times it can be difficult to handle their brood of children and with six under 11, just leaving the house can be a military operations.
"Believe me, every time we want to leave the house to do some shopping it's like planning an escape. It's as if there's money on our heads?," he explained.
"I'm happy that at least the older kids aren't afraid of the paparazzi any more and are used to it."
But it's not just leaving the house that puts Brad under pressure, he recently admitted the children are impatient for the couple to tie the knot having got engaged in April this year.
Speaking at a press conference for his new movie earlier this week, he said: "I will admit we have had some pressure from our kids. We didn't realise how much it means to them, and in getting engaged, we didn't realise how much it means to ourselves."
From USAToday
Brad Pitt is a man on the move
The Oscar-nominated superstar deftly navigates a life in the spotlight and the beloved 'chaos' of six kids at home.
5:22PM EST November 28. 2012 - NEW YORK – Brad Pitt bounds into a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria, doles out a quick handshake that turns into a hug, and sprints to one of the three windows in the room. He pulls open the curtains and looks at the sleet and rain hammering Manhattan 29 floors below him. Like any commuter, Pitt is concerned about annoying travel delays and getting to work on time."I gotta get out of here. I go straight to set," he says, referring to the London re-shoots of the zombie flick World War Z. "I just buzzed in and am buzzing out. I hit the plane this afternoon."
Yes, this is what the most famous actor in the world is really like. Shockingly, weirdly, almost off-puttingly accessible. Once you get past the thick layers of security – necessary, as evidenced by a hotel employee who had earlier flipped out in ecstasy after seeing Pitt in person – and peel back all your expectations, fed by years of panting tabloid coverage of everything Pitt, you meet a guy who's friendly, a bit tired, and exceedingly pleasant.
"He's the most normal guy. I spent a lot of time with him on those Ocean's movies – he doesn't do anything to drum up that insanity. He lives in the middle of that and he's somehow found a way to not go crazy. He's not crazy," confirms his friend Matt Damon, who had just seen Pitt. "I don't know if that's his family or his upbringing and now it's become his children and his wife. It's incredible – seeing him yesterday, he's the same great guy from Missouri. I don't understand how he keeps doing great work. It would seem to me that you would lose your ability to be a human being. I genuinely don't know how he's still such a great guy, such a real guy."
Ask Pitt that question and he just laughs. That's probably the better and smarter alternative to furiously and futilely fighting the constant scrutiny lavished on him and his family, fiancée Angelina Jolie and their six kids, Maddox, 11, Pax, 9, Zahara, 7, Shiloh, 6, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 4.
"We're a double whammy, Angie and I. I jumped into this thing somehow as a tabloid magnet. I'm not sure what I did," says Pitt. "We stay blissfully naïve to all of it. You can't do anything about it. More importantly, I trust my decision-making process. When you have that other feedback, those other comments, they're always in the back there. They color your thinking in an unpure way. I don't like that. I don't want anything steering me right or left. I find it a much healthier way to live and my decisions are better, because they're strictly mine."
He applies that same instinctual approach to his career. It's how and why he signed on to star in Killing Them Softly, a Mob drama directed by Andrew Dominik that opens Friday. He'd worked with Pitt on 2007's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Dominik had sent Pitt a text, asking if he was interested in playing a cool-headed and practical hit man. Pitt said yes. The next day, they hashed out the deal at Pitt's L.A. home, sans agents or managers.
"I don't know if I've ever made one happen faster. Andrew is a friend of mine and someone I trust with anything and everything," says Pitt.
What fuels his decisions? "It's more about the company I keep. But I liked this idea. Selfishly, for me, it's getting to do something more urban from my upbringing in the old Ozarks," he says. "I thought it was a very provocative telling. People came in. We did it for no money. We shot the whole film in five or six weeks. It's pretty fun."
Dominik first approached Pitt because they had a history together, and a rich working relationship. Plus, he says, Pitt has that ephemeral quality you can't really quantify. You know it when you see it.
"He always seems to retain his mystery on screen. There's something unattainable about Brad. There's something mysterious about him," says Dominik. "Brad is a naturally very generous guy. This time, he gets to play a selfish (expletive) and gets to take a holiday from himself. You have to cast Brad as someone exceptional. Here, he's the enforcer. He's a cool part."
In person, too, says Dominik, Pitt is just as disarming. "He's really hard to buy a gift for. He gives a lot. It's hard to receive," says the director. "I find Brad to be very straightforward, very stubborn. He's a contrarian. He's not frightened. That might be unusual for a movie star in his situation. He's very fearless. When things have been difficult in my life, he's been there. I admire the way he handles himself."
Would Pitt go into acting today, if he knew what the industry was like and the impact fame would have on his life?
"Now, at this age? No, but not because of acting. I have other, quieter interests," says the Oscar-nominated actor, who works with the Make It Right foundation, which builds green homes for lower-income families, and dabbles in architecture, jewelry and furniture design.
Pitt doesn't come across as angry or bitter or fed-up with his supersized existence, which is based in Los Angeles, New Orleans and a chateau in France. His life just is what it is. The fans are who they are. And things, he says, have calmed down – somewhat.
"It's changed a little bit. Now, being older, it's actually sweeter. It's nicer in some ways. Somewhere in the middle it got really ugly, the grabbing, not seeing that there's a person there," he says. "That was coming from the bounty hunt for pictures. It's an older generation now. We're all getting older."
His birthday is next month and in one year, he turns 50. To say Pitt is aging gracefully is to call Chanel just another clothing line. "I'm actually kinda doing it. Talk to me in 10 years when the knees aren't working at all," he says.
As for his upcoming nuptials, Pitt remains circumspect, telling reporters only that it may happen soon. His home life, says the actor, revolves around his brood. He and Jolie take turns working; she just shot the fable Maleficent in England.
"We keep the family together and one of us can always be home with the kids. By the way, it's a really nice break. Mom worked all summer. I got to spend a lot of time with them. We got to come up and spend time at mommy's work. It's just the way to do it," he says.
When told about this reporter's problems with toddler tantrums, Pitt nods. He gets it. And he also understands the mess that kids usher in, and the inability to keep any area of any dwelling toy-free.
"After two, you just throw in the towel. It's just nice. Once you get to three or four or five or six, it makes it a little bit richer," he says of his children. "There's a few more sounds in the house. I love it. I love the chaos. I love the big family. I love the chaos in the house. It's so full of light. As long as you've got a place to be a quiet, but you don't because they take over those areas too. It's not your home anymore."
And what about the obsession with crayons or markers? Yes, Pitt's been there.
"Oh man. One of them ended up with a Sharpie. I walked into our room and am washing my hands in the bathroom. I look over. What's that on the sink? I trace a line across the wall, across the shades, the bathtub, into the bedroom, along the wall, up over the bed. Someone had covered the entire place and ended in big scribbling at the end," he says, not naming the culprit. "It was a she. It was two shes. One inspired the other to keep going."
He's adorable when discussing his kids, just another doting and bemused dad telling stories about them and Jolie, as long as they're not for publication. As the interview wraps up, Pitt checks the time, glancing at the stunning gold timepiece on his left arm.
"My missus got me this watch. It's an old one," he says.
Clearly, Jolie knows her man. If there's one thing to note about Pitt, it's the difficulty in finding a good present for him. Dominik says he's impossible to buy for. Pitt agrees.
"I don't want people to buy me gifts. I feel guilty. I'm not good at accepting gifts. I feel uncomfortable. Buy me a drink!"
From AP via The Telegraph
Brad Pitt on marriage to Angelina Jolie, 'Killing Them Softly', and THAT Chanel ad
His face is hardly wrinkled and he is still one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, but Brad Pitt has admitted that he is becoming increasingly concerned with his own mortality.
Brad Pitt says the spoofs of his Chanel No5 ad are "fair play"
2:52AM GMT 29 Nov 2012
Twenty years after his break-out role as the heart throb of "Thelma &
Louise", Pitt says he is now working as though his expiration date is
lurking.
"I'm definitely past halfway," the actor, who turns 49 in December,
revealed in a new interview. "I think about it very much as a father.
You just want to be around to see (your children) do everything. If I have
so many days left, how am I filling those days? I've been agonizing over
that one a bit like I never have before."
That sense of urgency has helped fuel some of Pitt's most daring work,
including his new film, "Killing Them Softly."
The film is his second with Andrew Dominik, the New Zealand-born director of "The
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". In the
adaption of George V Higgins' 1974 crime novel, "Cogan's Trade,"
Pitt plays a hit man operating in a shabby underworld of image-conscious
gangsters.
Pitt has starred in surprisingly few blockbusters over the last decade.
Instead, he has gravitated toward working with revered directors like
Terrence Malick ("Tree of Life") and the Coen brothers, and
shaping his opportunities by producing them. His production company, Plan B,
produced both "Jesse James" and "Killing Them Softly,"
as well as many of his films in between.
More often than not, he's sought to downplay his glamour, a track begun with
David Fincher's "Fight Club" and extended with ruminations on
celebrity (Dominik's "Jesse James") and more character actor roles
than most leading men would dare (his ditzy personal trainer in the Coens' "Burn
After Reading," his Nazi-killing lieutenant in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious
Basterds").
"Killing Them Softly," too, is an ensemble, with James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn.
Even in last year's performance as Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane in "Moneyball" (for which he landed his third Oscar nomination), Pitt deliberately played it low-key.
"Life is more interesting," he said in an interview with the Associated Press published on Wednesday. "I enjoy the fantasy; I enjoy when everyone wins. I just don't contribute to that idea very well, for better or worse.
"There's something subversive in my Christian upbringing or something, my mid-America upbringing. That irreverent urge that makes you want to yell or fart during the Benediction in church. I just can't help it."
And yet, Pitt has simultaneously carried the movie star mantle with seeming ease. Though his relationship with Angelina Jolie, with whom he has six children, has made him a constant tabloid target, he appeared relaxed and unguarded in conversation. He said his celebrity "hasn't bugged me since the '90s," but he acknowledged that he occasionally trades on it: "I mean, I play some smart ball," he said.
"The difficulty with Brad was always: What can you cast a movie star in?" says Dominik. "You have to deal with it. You have to cast him as someone extraordinary, which I guess he is. He's the cool guy in the movie."
Certainly a very un-"Fight Club" thing to do was the recent Chanel ad campaign Pitt stars in, where he smolders in black-and-white and says things like "It's not a journey" into the camera. The spots were mocked on "Saturday Night Live," to which Pitt says cheerfully: "Fair play, fair play." After a reporter admits not knowing much about fragrances, he laughed, admitting: "Apparently, neither do I."
So why do it?
"Never done it before," was the star's reply. "Respect the company. I'm getting old. Last time I'll probably be able to do something like that."
It is a line of reasoning that seems pervasive in Pitt's choices right now, including his current project: "World War Z", a zombie action film reportedly budgeted at $180 million that could give Pitt what his resume is missing: a franchise.
"I'm not a franchise guy," he said. "They told me I should be focusing on that, as I'm getting older and cresting the precipice and heading down the other side: 'You should really bank one of those.' I'm just not good at it."
The film is also a far bigger scale production for Pitt and Plan B, and things have not gone smoothly. The ending is being reshot - typically a bad sign for a movie - and Pitt calls the film "a total learning experience for me." When the film finally wraps, he said, "Believe me, I'll be celebrating."
Dede Gardner, Pitt's producing partner, says getting older has only made Pitt more patient.
"He's extremely careful," says Gardner. "I suppose that's one thing that happens if you age with consciousness, to be vigilant."
Their other coming productions are smaller, more director-driven. Plan B is producing the next film by Steve McQueen ("Shame"), "12 Years a Slave," and is slated to again produce a film by Dominik: his planned Marilyn Monroe biopic "Blonde."
Though "Jesse James" made a scant $4 million at the box office, Pitt has stuck with the director.
"Somewhere in the late '90s, it became clear to me that there were many leading men roles that you could plug anyone of us into and virtually get the same thing," said Pitt. "Because there's such an investment of time and thought, I wanted to find stories that were more personal to me and that I believed I could add something that was unique."
"Killing Them Softly," is certainly that, a film that probably would not exist if not for Pitt. Set in 2008, the fiscal crisis looms large, with speeches by US presidents George Bush and Barack Obama inserted as an obvious metaphor. In it, Pitt's character declares: "America isn't a country. It's a business."
Gandolfini, former star of The Sopranos, had twice previously worked with Pitt. "We were both at the beginning of our careers," said Gandolfini. "He's the same guy. He's a good guy, a regular guy."
Despite any concerns about "cresting the precipice," Pitt exuded contentment. His confidence as an actor is high, he said, attributing his ability to "craftsmanship".
In his personal life, he and Jolie are planning to marry, after once saying they would not until gay marriage was legal.
"It's an exciting prospect, even though for us, we've gone further than that," said Pitt. "But to concretize it in that way. It actually means more to me than I thought it would. It means a lot to our kids."
As he approaches 50, Pitt's career longevity even surprises him.
"It's amazing I've stuck with this this long because I'm not usually like that. I hit the road," he said. "Exploring within it has been the thing that's kept me in it."
Source: AP
"Killing Them Softly," too, is an ensemble, with James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn.
Even in last year's performance as Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane in "Moneyball" (for which he landed his third Oscar nomination), Pitt deliberately played it low-key.
"Life is more interesting," he said in an interview with the Associated Press published on Wednesday. "I enjoy the fantasy; I enjoy when everyone wins. I just don't contribute to that idea very well, for better or worse.
"There's something subversive in my Christian upbringing or something, my mid-America upbringing. That irreverent urge that makes you want to yell or fart during the Benediction in church. I just can't help it."
And yet, Pitt has simultaneously carried the movie star mantle with seeming ease. Though his relationship with Angelina Jolie, with whom he has six children, has made him a constant tabloid target, he appeared relaxed and unguarded in conversation. He said his celebrity "hasn't bugged me since the '90s," but he acknowledged that he occasionally trades on it: "I mean, I play some smart ball," he said.
"The difficulty with Brad was always: What can you cast a movie star in?" says Dominik. "You have to deal with it. You have to cast him as someone extraordinary, which I guess he is. He's the cool guy in the movie."
Certainly a very un-"Fight Club" thing to do was the recent Chanel ad campaign Pitt stars in, where he smolders in black-and-white and says things like "It's not a journey" into the camera. The spots were mocked on "Saturday Night Live," to which Pitt says cheerfully: "Fair play, fair play." After a reporter admits not knowing much about fragrances, he laughed, admitting: "Apparently, neither do I."
So why do it?
"Never done it before," was the star's reply. "Respect the company. I'm getting old. Last time I'll probably be able to do something like that."
It is a line of reasoning that seems pervasive in Pitt's choices right now, including his current project: "World War Z", a zombie action film reportedly budgeted at $180 million that could give Pitt what his resume is missing: a franchise.
"I'm not a franchise guy," he said. "They told me I should be focusing on that, as I'm getting older and cresting the precipice and heading down the other side: 'You should really bank one of those.' I'm just not good at it."
The film is also a far bigger scale production for Pitt and Plan B, and things have not gone smoothly. The ending is being reshot - typically a bad sign for a movie - and Pitt calls the film "a total learning experience for me." When the film finally wraps, he said, "Believe me, I'll be celebrating."
Dede Gardner, Pitt's producing partner, says getting older has only made Pitt more patient.
"He's extremely careful," says Gardner. "I suppose that's one thing that happens if you age with consciousness, to be vigilant."
Their other coming productions are smaller, more director-driven. Plan B is producing the next film by Steve McQueen ("Shame"), "12 Years a Slave," and is slated to again produce a film by Dominik: his planned Marilyn Monroe biopic "Blonde."
Though "Jesse James" made a scant $4 million at the box office, Pitt has stuck with the director.
"Somewhere in the late '90s, it became clear to me that there were many leading men roles that you could plug anyone of us into and virtually get the same thing," said Pitt. "Because there's such an investment of time and thought, I wanted to find stories that were more personal to me and that I believed I could add something that was unique."
"Killing Them Softly," is certainly that, a film that probably would not exist if not for Pitt. Set in 2008, the fiscal crisis looms large, with speeches by US presidents George Bush and Barack Obama inserted as an obvious metaphor. In it, Pitt's character declares: "America isn't a country. It's a business."
Gandolfini, former star of The Sopranos, had twice previously worked with Pitt. "We were both at the beginning of our careers," said Gandolfini. "He's the same guy. He's a good guy, a regular guy."
Despite any concerns about "cresting the precipice," Pitt exuded contentment. His confidence as an actor is high, he said, attributing his ability to "craftsmanship".
In his personal life, he and Jolie are planning to marry, after once saying they would not until gay marriage was legal.
"It's an exciting prospect, even though for us, we've gone further than that," said Pitt. "But to concretize it in that way. It actually means more to me than I thought it would. It means a lot to our kids."
As he approaches 50, Pitt's career longevity even surprises him.
"It's amazing I've stuck with this this long because I'm not usually like that. I hit the road," he said. "Exploring within it has been the thing that's kept me in it."
Source: AP
From Extra
November 27, 2012
The A List
Proud parents Brad Pitt and fiancée Angelina Jolie may have a troupe of aspiring actors on their hands as Vivienne, Zahara and Pax prepare to make their big debut in mom's film, “Maleficent.”
If the Jolie-Pitt children catch the acting bug, however, Brad and Angie won’t stand in their way. “Whatever they want to do… we'll have them figure it out,” says dad.
Brad is one busy guy. In addition to his dad duties and “Killing Them Softly” press tour, he’s also designing furniture for Pollaro and starring in the upcoming zombie apocalypse movie, “World War Z.”
“This is not your usual zombie… it’s good, it’s good fun,” he said of the horror film.
From People
Brad Pitt: Wedding Will Happen 'Soon'
Put the champagne on ice. It appears Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's long-awaited wedding isn't far off – and that's from someone who would know.
"I am getting more pressure from my kids, and it is something I want to do within their lifetime, but I also feel like the time has come," Pitt said Monday night at the premiere of his new film, Killing Them Softly, in New York.
"The time is nigh," he added. "It's soon. I got a good feeling about it."
Pitt, 48, who has been in London filming World War Z this month, has been with Jolie, 37, for seven years. They have six children together – Maddox, 11, Pax, 8, Zahara, 7, Shiloh, 6, and 4-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne – and got engaged this past spring.
And yet, even with so much history together already, Pitt says the idea of tying the knot with his longtime partner is still hugely meaningful.
"We've had a family, we've raised the kids," he says. "I am surprised how much [marriage] meant to me once you had that."
• Reporting by K.C. BAKER
From SheKnows
Since Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie played Mr. And Mrs. Smith, fans
have been wondering when they’ll become Mr. and Mrs. Pitt. Pressure from
their large brood seems to be winning out over Brad’s previous claim
that he and Angie would wait until marriage was legal for all. Now he’s
saying it will be “soon.” But how soon?
Christmas/Christmas Eve
Smart celebrities know if they want to be left alone on their wedding
day, it’s best to do it when something bigger is going on. So what
could possibly be bigger than the most highly anticipated nuptials of
our generation? Christmas. Think about it. All the paparazzi and reporters will be nestled, all snug in their beds, while Brad and Angie
decide to wed. These two celebrities are famous for shunning the
popularity that surrounds them, so we could see them huddling around the
Christmas tree with their offspring, exchanging vows — in front of a
Santa impersonator, perhaps?Any Friday between now and New Year's
For the same reason stated above, Brad and Angie may be planning a Friday-in-December wedding. Remember when headlines about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ divorce circulated on a Friday? Afternoon, no less? That was brilliant. It still made headlines, but all us entertainment writers in the industry had already checked out for the weekend, and were kind of pissed when we had to go back to work and write about Tom Cruise’s third failed marriage. Getting married on a Friday is a close second to Christmas — it would get covered more than a Christmas wedding, but reporters wouldn’t be happy about it.Pretty much any day in December
There are several interesting anniversaries in December that Brad and Angie may want to honor by joining in holy matrimony. Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day. Brangelina loves nothing more than stirring up a little awareness. Dec. 3 is International Day of People with Disabilities. With all the couple’s humanitarian efforts, perhaps they’ll get married on Dec. 10, which is Human Rights Day. Brad and Angelina have strong ties to Africa — Angie’s humanitarian work, their first pictures as a couple were in Africa and their daughter, Shiloh was born in Africa. Perhaps they will marry on Dec. 12, which marks Independence Day in Kenya. Our bet is that they will marry Friday, Dec. 14, which as everyone knows is haven’t-you-guys-been-together-for-seven-years-and-don’t-you-already-have-six-kids-and-you’re-probably-already-married-and-no-one-would-give-a-rip-if-you-weren’t-Angelina-Jolie-and-Brad-Pitt-day. (OK, so we may have made that last one up.)New Year's Eve
Again, this holiday will serve as the perfect diversion with most people either in New York City or watching the gathering in Times Square on TV. People are so hung over on New Year's, it could be a week before people even catch on to a Brad/Angelina marriage. Angie’s New Year's kiss to Brad might also be her first kiss as his bride. Talk about a memorable way to ring in the New Year!
