"For a long time I thought I did too much damage - drug damage," the 49-year-old star says in the profile which hits newsstands at the end of the month. "I was a bit of a drifter. A guy who felt he grew up in something of a vacuum and wanted to see things, wanted to be inspired. I followed that other thing. I spent years f***ing off."
“I spent the ‘90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out,” explained Brad. “It started feeling pathetic. It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn’t living an interesting life myself. I think that my marriage [to Jennifer Aniston] had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t.”
“It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn’t living an interesting life myself.” The change, it seems, came when he got together with Angelina Jolie. “Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her,” Pitt enthused. He says that one of his main goals in life is now a feeling of satisfaction. “I put much more emphasis on being a satisfied man. I’m satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.” Talking about his family, he says: “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.”