SEVEN YEARS LEFT? - "Vanity Fair" reveals Brad Pitt's breakdown According to Reuters Agency - Los Angeles, November 2001 and after BBC UK service Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt admits letting his own fame go to his head at times, but the actor figures he has seven years, at best, left in the prime of his career and looks forward to doing other things. Here are the details: "On one hand, I'm hitting my own stride now. On the other hand, I'll tell you truthfully, I'm completely bored with myself in films. I have other interests that I want to pursue that mean more to me" - said in the interview for "Vanity Fair" Brad Pitt, who is about to appear in two of the season's most highly anticipated films - "Spy Games" co-starring and directed by Robert Redford, and a remake of the ensemble heist drama "Ocean's 11". "I think there's room to go away from it for a while and then you can come back and reinvent.I find myself looking forward to a family. ... Anything that's going to take the focus off myself, I welcome." Pitt, a two-time recipient of People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" honors, saw his star voltage skyrocket last year when he married "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston, a union he jokingly refers to as "the merger". "The thing with our marriage is that there was an opening in the Hollywood-couple slot, and unfortunately we've fallen into it, which I don't like very much. It doesn't leave us room to be human, to make our mistakes and have our struggles, because that will just be another story." Pitt also tells the magazine that he has grown more comfortable talking about his feelings after spending a year and a half in therapy. Brad addmited that he had even considered hospital treatment like singer Mariah Carey but refused to reveal what led to his breakdown, when it was, or if it was connected to his break-up with Oscar-winning actress Gywneth Paltrow in 1997. "I crashed and burned, so I wanted to understand how I operate. ... I came from a place where you had to be crazy to go to a crazy doctor" - said the Oklahoma-born star who was raised in a Baptist home in Springfield, Missouri. Although Pitt said he views himself as a "normal guy" trapped in the body of a movie star, he acknowledges getting caught up in the "huge trap" of his own celebrity. "We are treated as special. We get away with things that other people can't. And you start to believe the lie that you are special, that you're better than other people. You start demanding that kind of treatment. Most of the time I fight it ... but at times I succumb to it." On the other hand, Pitt said he is aware that fame is fleeting. "I figure I've got about five strong years, seven tops. I'm still at a viable age, but I'm hitting the cusp." TO THE NEXT TEXT or BACK TO THE BRAD PITT 100% PICS SITE