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"I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him"

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A shrug disguised as a compliment: Olivier Martinez manages to praise Brad Pitt while building a clean firewall around him. The line’s charm is in its casualness, the way it mimics everyday candor even as it performs crisis PR. “I like Brad Pitt” signals basic decency and disarms the obvious narrative hook: two men cast as rivals because Hollywood can’t resist turning relationships into prizefights. Then comes the pivot: “I just have nothing to do with him.” That clause isn’t hostility; it’s jurisdiction. Martinez is declining the role the tabloids wrote for him.

The subtext is about refusing a manufactured triangle. Pitt, as a global symbol more than a person, comes with an entire media weather system: comparisons, speculation, “feuds,” the expectation of commentary. Martinez’s sentence sidesteps that gravitational pull. He’s asserting a boundary between private life and celebrity mythmaking, but also between different tiers of fame. You can hear an actor protecting his own identity from being reduced to “the other guy in a Brad Pitt story.”

It works because it’s both plainspoken and strategic. There’s no dramatic denial, no sanctimony, no fuel. The first half keeps him likable; the second half cuts off follow-up questions. It’s a micro-lesson in modern celebrity survival: you can acknowledge the superstar, but you don’t let the superstar’s narrative annex your life.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Martinez, Olivier. (n.d.). I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-brad-pitt-i-just-have-nothing-to-do-with-13542/

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Martinez, Olivier. "I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-brad-pitt-i-just-have-nothing-to-do-with-13542/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-brad-pitt-i-just-have-nothing-to-do-with-13542/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Olivier Martinez

Olivier Martinez (born January 12, 1966) is a Actor from France.

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