Brad Pitt Retiring In 3 Years - Says Happiness Is Overrated
I don't know what kind of mood Brad Pitt was in when he was interviewed for the Australian version of 60 Minutes, but he certainly dropped some bombshells. The actor told the program that when he hits 50 he is going to retire from acting which means he has three years left for acting which means about 4 or 5 more movies maybe. Of course it also seems like Angelina Jolie says she is going to retire every year but keeps on making movies. You know why? Because they both like the attention. This is why I also doubt that either of them will be retiring anytime soon despite what they say.
During the show, Brad also says that happiness is overrated and that he thinks peace is a more realistic aim. Huh? Why should you not shoot to be happy everyday? Peace sounds like complacency and isn't that what he said was the downfall of his marriage to Jennifer Aniston? That he just did not care and life became boring. Is life boring if you are happy? I don't get that.
I think he just really likes himself a lot and likes to talk about what he thinks are deep issues, but just do not come across that way when he talks about them. Oh, and the woman who interviewed him? Ann Curry has some competition in the crush department. I tried to embed the video, but it will not work so you will have to go to their site to watch it.
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I'll believe it when I see it. Angie has been spewing the same bullshit since she had Shiloh.
I think this is more about vanity. He doesn't want to be old on screen he is kinda hitting the wall and not aging gracefully.
His Thelma & Louise days are over.
I think he is messing around and bored with answering the same questions. If the interviewer is gushing he might be over lack of professionalism. Don't think he'll quit acting totally a la Clint Eastwood.
These people are so out of touch w/ reality it's pathetic.
I call bullshit on the retiring-at-age-50 thing. Riiiggghhhht.
This "threat" might help him get the cream of all job offers and more money for those roles in the meantime, which in his case is not the worst thing in the world since he does supposedly give quite a bit to charity.
Otherwise he needs to get over himself.
"I think he just really likes himself a lot and likes to talk about what he thinks are deep issues, but just do not come across that way when he talks about them."
I agree, and wonder if this is why we don't hear from him very often. He seems like a happy-go-lucky stoner who got very lucky. And I don't mean Angelina when I say lucky, I'm referring to his fame and fortune. (I bet she's SUPERFUN to deal with.)
He's getting older and knows that guys like Ryan Gosling will get all the plum roles. Maybe he become more in the same vein as George Clooney or Clint Eastwood, who develop and often direct their own projects.
I think he parrots what Angelina says. Look at his past relationships, he has a history of taking on the personality and public personae of his girlfriends.
I think what he meant about peace is more about being content rather than happy. You are at peace with your existence rather than complacent. I think happiness 24/7 is really difficult to obtain, but you can certainly be content and at peace with your life.
I think you're right said. That's why he's trying to take over Johnny Depp's quirky look, to make himself odd instead of old but it doesn't work for him. Neither he and Angelina are aging well. As soon as they got together their looks started fading.
Angelina's looks started fading when she stopped eating and hitting the botox too hard. He looks like he's just given up.
The thing is, though he has talent, I don't think he has the ability to be a chameleon in the same way that Johnny Depp does.
I think he's full of shit. As far as happiness, I believe that he's not happy. He got himself trapped in this crazy relationship, sure they're not married but 6 kids, it's a mess.
Every time I see photo's of the hand holding train going through an airport or just out for a photo op...it's like the circus is coming to town.
Oh whatever Brad.
I maintain that the billy goat beard was to hide a nip/tuck.
I have always felt he was over-rated. He doesn't come across as terribly bright and while he isn't a bad actor, he isn't great either. Oh, and I don't think him and Angie-Jo will ever break up. They feed each others "all about me" tendencies too much.
Oh, Brad. STFU. Seriously.
His big ego so needs to be fed that he wants everyone to beg him to make more movies - "Pleeez want me"!
Actually I agree 100% with what he said about happy. You come to a point in your life when you realize happiness as a goal is complete BS because, really, true happiness is fleetings. As a matter of fact I think part of modern problems are that we are pursuing happiness, and then upset because we aren't! When he says "peace" I call that being content. As I am now in my life. I've got my ups and I've got my downs, Ive got my moments of joy and despair, but that's life.
Did he say RETIRE in three years or BATHE in three years?
It's good to have goals, I guess.
Yea, I agree with him too. Happiness and peace are two different things. If I strive for happiness all of the time then I can or will be disappointed, mostly because it is unrealistic to be happy all of the time. There is not true happiness in my opinion. With peace it is on a different level, and mostly it is about accepting yourself and others or your situations etc., and it does come by being content, and that is peaceful to me, and it's different for all people.
One of things that is hard to explain without going into specifics.
It's funny, people will say they do everything in the spotlight, yet we hardly see them outside of doing a promotion for movie or project. The paps are all over their kids, which is a no no in my book. A no win situation for them, I'm sure.
This dude is strung out on drugs (not the sweet plumes of marijuana smoke but the hard shit). Look how skinny he is and he also has the dead eyes from meth abuse.
Meth abuse or living Angelina?
Sis, I completely agree. Being happy all the time is just not natural or even sane. There are so many tragic things going on in the world. But at peace with your self, and able to deal with whatever ups and downs life might through at you? That is possible and something to aspire to.
Sis, I completely agree. Being happy all the time is just not natural or even sane. There are so many tragic things going on in the world. But at peace with your self, and able to deal with whatever ups and downs life might through at you? That is possible and something to aspire to.
Good lord, Enty really hates this couple.
Actually, I've never heard either of them say they're going to retire before, what I *have* heard them say is they prefer to take turns on projects so that one parent is always available for the kids while the other works.
And for what it's worth, I agree completely about peace vs. this unending search for "happiness". As I get older, I realize I don't need to have it all, including a fairy tale life, being content is really kind of great and peaceful.
He's definitely a little looser-lipped these days, but what's wrong with that? Guy's been in the business for decades and made some really good movies. I like this couple and probably always will. They seem uninterested in Holllywood bullshit to me.
i think it is interesting that the writer of a celebrity gossip blog is pretending to know what the difference is between peace and happiness, as nearly every post written never embodies either of those two categories.
The report is supposed to have a crush on him, unless she is gay the man is gorgeous.
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@Beth: Lol. I say it's both since Angie Jo has been and still is a hardcore drug user. Her eyes in half her pap pics are sooooo dilated and her weight is insane. After her own interviews, stories and even video of her drug use, she (or any third party stories either) has never mentioned rehab of ANY kind. Most people who have hung out in drug dens and with people who partake of heroin (Marilyn Manson) don't just quit cold turkey much less still have physical signs of abuse while clean.
BTW, I think some are confusing happiness with pleasure. A person can be happy longterm in life and not be bored but a person who seeks pleasure constantly will definitely be bored. Think about it: A person can be surrounded by luxury and pleasurable things but NOT be happy however a person can be happy even if his/her life seems pretty crappy by most people's standards.
Ann Curry interviewed Adam Sandler last week; at the end she bent over and kissed his hand, a la Barbara Walters and Henry Kissinger. If I were any sort of serious person I'm not sure I'd want tape of me being interviewed by a dipwad like her in the archives.
I read somewhere once that Pitt sort of adopts the persona (as well as the look) of whatever woman he is dating. Seems to be holding true to pattern. He really is an empty shell . . . or a great actor, depending on whether you like the guy or not.
Can't say he's overly bright, though. Personal happiness (which isn't necessarily just a selfish aim but something that comes from being at peace with who you are and with those around you), is an attainable goal if you care to try. "Peace" is not. Insist on peace and you'll end up at war with the rest of humanity.
He'll be staying home to watch the kids while Angie's out being, well, Angie. He's just whipped. Team Amartel FTW.
Oh PLEASE! Go away, you goomba from the live action Super Mario Brothers movie looking turd. And take your heroin-addicted skeletor freakface "wife" with you. Better yet, both of you get in a car with Aniston and drive off a cliff. Hate you all!
Maybe he'll retire from acting and focus on other projects, write, direct, etc.?
@Lelaina - that's exactly what he said in the interview. He's just giving up acting, and right now he's really enjoying helping along projects that otherwise might not have been made. Fair enough!
Stop talking, Brad. Just shut up and look pretty.
I think he might stay away from acting for a few years, but it's easier for aging men to get work than for aging women...he'll be offered the role of a lifetime before he hits 60 and he'll be back!
I think happiness is a pretty good goal to have, and I certainly don't find it overrated.
i can totally see angie being a globetrotting do-gooder, and brad following her around making documentaries about the country they are in. not leaving the industry, but leaving the glitz part, EXCEPT for the occasional red carpet event where they will out shine everyone. totally see it.
Did anyone read Lainey's take on this....it was actually funny...
I kind of agree, I think happiness everyday is ridiculous and makes you sort of mental if you have it. You should hope to have an overall feeling of happiness but everyday? Looney tunes.
In an interview Jen gave shortly after he took off with Jolie, Jen remarked about his ginormous ego. He has said and done a lot of things since then that remind me of that and the truth of what she said. I bet no one loves Brad as much as Brad loves Brad.
Lainey had a good take on it she thinks this is his message to the Academy he wants that Oscar and he wants it now!
Sounds like he might be dabbling in Buddhism? Seems like something he & Angie might do. In Buddhism, happiness and suffering are two sides of the coin - you can't have one without the other. Peace comes from acceptance without ascribing "bad" or "good" to experiences.
Actually, he has two years to 50. He is born in December 1963, so he is about a month from 48.
I agree about "happiness." I take the Zen Buddhist view of it. It is a destination one cannot plan for. Happiness is a byproduct of a productive and fulfilling life.
I also agree that this sounds like the death knell for his relationship with Angie. He said similar things before his break-up with Aniston AND Paltrow.
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