Jolie: Brad And I Want To "Just Live"

(CBS)  Family-life in the Jolie-Pitt household is a challenge. So much so that the actress says she and Pitt plan to stop working in a few years to give their undivided attention to their brood — Maddox, 5, Pax, 3, Zahara, 2 and Shiloh, 1.

"Brad and I have a lot of kids, and we want to have more kids," she says in the new issue of Parade magazine. "And they demand a lot of time. It takes a lot just to get all of them fed and clothed and out the door to different schools on time. It's fun, and we love it. But you can't balance everything. I think both of us only plan to work for a few more years. We'll try to just stop sooner or later, so we can be home and travel, and just live."

The mother of four says she aspires to be like her own mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who she lost to ovarian cancer in January.

"I am my mother's daughter," she says. "I mean, I hope but don't think I'll ever be as good as her."

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Photos: The "Ocean's 13" Premiere

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Bertrand was just 56 when she passed away earlier this year and her daughter describes her as a "pure" and "gracious" woman.

"This was somebody who the world didn't know about at all, but her simple acts of kindness left a huge impression," Jolie says. "I still get letters from people who work in a dentist's office who will tell me something she did for their daughter — or something she remembered that just stunned them, because it was so out of the blue and thoughtful."

Jolie says that in her early 20s — flashback to her failed marriage to actor Billy Bob Thornton and red carpet make-outs in full view of cameras — she may have been living a life of unimportance.

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Photos: Angelina Jolie

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"I think that when I was in my early 20s, I knew, innately, that I wasn't living an important life," she says. "I think that I didn't so much lose my way, but I hadn't found my way. I wasn't giving very much. My life was not really benefiting anyone. That just doesn't feel good."

Now she recognizes that she can use her celebrity to impact the world. "There's a part of me that understands that I can get people to pay attention to certain things," she says. "When that happens, there's nothing that feels better. But my intention was never, 'I need to go out there and teach other people something.' "

In fact, she says, that with all these trips she takes to far away countries, she is constantly learning. "I feel like I am getting such a great education," she says. "Whether people's thoughts about my family are positive or negative, at the end of the day, I get to come home to these four little people who are the greatest things in the world."

[samthetvcat]

Brangelina were on the red carpet for Ocean's 13 (man, I'm so excited about this movie!!!) and they looked so in love. I'm really rooting for these two - I know a lot of Jen fans think Brad's scum for the way he ditched her and picked up with Angelina so fast and all, and that it's kind of strange that Angelina doesn't even talk to her dad, but this is Hollywood after all. I think Brad and Angelina have a good chance of lasting at least twice as long as Brad and Jen, which in Hollywood would be a long time I guess . . .

[juliemd]

PS-- I loved that they tell the snoops that they'll get married when gay/lesbian people have the option, too.

Love makes a family, not marriage.

[juliemd]

They're not married, so you don't need to speculate about what will happen to "these poor children" when they get divorced.

I think they are a bit more evolved that most people, really, a little more love, they have a little more understanding, a little more freedom, a little more money...:)

[stephanienym]

All these kids...and then what happens when you get a divorce...no one in Hollywood takes marriage serious...but they all want to play house with a bunch of adopted kids...It's sad

[dylanxxv]

So why don't you both just quit now and fade into obscurity?
Good riddence...Good bye, don't let the door hit ya in the azz on your way out...

[eascanlon]

ALL THE BEST TO ALL OF YOU - YOU ARE PEOPLE WHO I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW PERSONALLY AND WILL ALWAYS BE BY YOUR SIDE