"I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore"
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Under the calm is a quiet power play. "Trying to get something" reduces the photographers’ mission to a vague scavenger hunt, refusing to grant it narrative value. He’s not a quarry; they’re not chroniclers; they’re just people killing time. Then he flips the lens: "they're just wasting their day". The line pretends to be empathy but lands as a demotion. The celebrity, supposedly the object of pursuit, gets to decide whether the chase has meaning. Indifference becomes a form of agency.
The context is a mid-2000s-to-2010s tabloid ecosystem where Pitt, as half of "Brangelina" and later as a post-divorce fixation, was less an actor than a rolling content feed. Paparazzi didn’t merely document; they monetized micro-moments, baiting reactions that could be sold as personality. Pitt’s "it doesn't bother me anymore" isn’t serenity so much as strategy: if the commodity is access to your emotional life, the safest response is to go emotionally dark. The quote works because it stages resignation as resistance, turning the spectacle into background noise and daring the cameras to film boredom.
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| Topic | Resilience |
|---|---|
| Source | Help us find the source |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Pitt, Brad. (n.d.). I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-know-when-i-go-outside-therell-be-a-van-or-two-39672/
Chicago Style
Pitt, Brad. "I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-know-when-i-go-outside-therell-be-a-van-or-two-39672/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-know-when-i-go-outside-therell-be-a-van-or-two-39672/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.






