drinking champagne from a paper cup
I hope I'm a good actor, I'm not a very good celebrity. I never have been.
I rarely dress up when I go out and my outings are to places like the grocery store. I don't think I owe the public and explanation about my life or my choices. I never have. Life is just life. I get bored with myself and wonder who that old man in the mirror is, just like everyone else. I get lonely and lost and make decisions for the wrong reasons, just like everyone else. We all do. Except we do it in front of the world.
Maybe it's just me, but sometimes, going along, living my life, I forget I'm in front of the world. I stand on a beach in Malibu listening to the seagulls and watching Maddox dig in the dirt and forget that there's someone hiding somewhere with a camera waiting for me to throw Angie in the sand and go at it, so they can sell the picture for millions of dollars. Does that happen to anyone else? Are you ever surprised to find that the new haircut you hate is now being publicly discussed and hated by the world? I still am.
I remember falling asleep one night after filming in Argentina and just as my eyes closed, I saw something. Opening them slowly, I realized it was a little girl, she turned out to be 14, who had scaled a wall and slipped past security to get in and see me. I'd like to say it was all perfectly innocent and I gave her an autograph and she left, but the propositions I get are rarely for a handshake and I had to call security to get her out and verify that she had removed her own clothes and I hadn't gone near her. That's insane to me. Fame makes me someone that people trust more than they do some relatives and want no matter what age they are or how disgusting hitting on a man my age would be to a young girl like that, if the man wasn't famous. That makes me feel responsible for people alot and keeps me from being as friendly as I used to be. Everyone has a version of this story though, I'm sure. Someone who grabbed your arm and told you that you were the only reason they were still alive or hugged you and whispered that they were afraid to go home because their father/husband/boyfriend beats them. It's one of the most insane things about fame to me.
I imagine all this is why announcing publicly that Angie and I are dating seems pointless to me. It's pretty obvious, isn't it? If I was interviewed and asked now, I wouldn't deny it. At the time I was being asked, we were still seeing just what we were going to be to one another, like any relationship, and labelling it seemed wrong. Now we know and yes, if you heard that I'm petitioning to adopt Maddox and Zahara you heard right. The papers are part of the public record, so I can't very well keep the press from finding out about it, so that's why I had my publicist confirm it. There was no reason not to, the proof was right there for anyone to access. Of course this is with Angie's blessing as anyone who knows her knows, nothing involving her children is ever done without her okay. And hopefully soon, they will be mine too and we'll officially be the Jolie-Pitt family.
I rarely dress up when I go out and my outings are to places like the grocery store. I don't think I owe the public and explanation about my life or my choices. I never have. Life is just life. I get bored with myself and wonder who that old man in the mirror is, just like everyone else. I get lonely and lost and make decisions for the wrong reasons, just like everyone else. We all do. Except we do it in front of the world.
Maybe it's just me, but sometimes, going along, living my life, I forget I'm in front of the world. I stand on a beach in Malibu listening to the seagulls and watching Maddox dig in the dirt and forget that there's someone hiding somewhere with a camera waiting for me to throw Angie in the sand and go at it, so they can sell the picture for millions of dollars. Does that happen to anyone else? Are you ever surprised to find that the new haircut you hate is now being publicly discussed and hated by the world? I still am.
I remember falling asleep one night after filming in Argentina and just as my eyes closed, I saw something. Opening them slowly, I realized it was a little girl, she turned out to be 14, who had scaled a wall and slipped past security to get in and see me. I'd like to say it was all perfectly innocent and I gave her an autograph and she left, but the propositions I get are rarely for a handshake and I had to call security to get her out and verify that she had removed her own clothes and I hadn't gone near her. That's insane to me. Fame makes me someone that people trust more than they do some relatives and want no matter what age they are or how disgusting hitting on a man my age would be to a young girl like that, if the man wasn't famous. That makes me feel responsible for people alot and keeps me from being as friendly as I used to be. Everyone has a version of this story though, I'm sure. Someone who grabbed your arm and told you that you were the only reason they were still alive or hugged you and whispered that they were afraid to go home because their father/husband/boyfriend beats them. It's one of the most insane things about fame to me.
I imagine all this is why announcing publicly that Angie and I are dating seems pointless to me. It's pretty obvious, isn't it? If I was interviewed and asked now, I wouldn't deny it. At the time I was being asked, we were still seeing just what we were going to be to one another, like any relationship, and labelling it seemed wrong. Now we know and yes, if you heard that I'm petitioning to adopt Maddox and Zahara you heard right. The papers are part of the public record, so I can't very well keep the press from finding out about it, so that's why I had my publicist confirm it. There was no reason not to, the proof was right there for anyone to access. Of course this is with Angie's blessing as anyone who knows her knows, nothing involving her children is ever done without her okay. And hopefully soon, they will be mine too and we'll officially be the Jolie-Pitt family.