Brad Pitt has millions of admiring fans, but, in a recent interview with Esquire magazine, the actor says he has very few actual friends. The Oklahoma native says despite his small circle, he is perfectly happy living life exactly how it is today with his kids. 

"I have very few friends," Pitt admitted to the mag. "I have a handful of close friends and I have my family and I haven't known life to be any happier. I'm making things. I just haven't known life to be any happier."

How could someone so famous be so lonely? Brad Pitt is married to the equally super-famous Angelina Jolie, and together, the couple has six children.

"I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house... there's constant chatter in our house, whether it's giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it," he said. "I love it. I love it. I hate it when they're gone. I hate it. Maybe it's nice to be in a hotel room for a day - 'Oh, nice, I can finally read a paper.' But then, by the next day, I miss that cacophony, all that life," he said in the Esquire interview.

Brad Pitt was of course once married to Jennifer Aniston, but was quick to dump the "Friends" star once he and Angelina Jolie bonded on the set of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." The gist of the interview is that being lonely is not equal to being unhappy. With Angelina Jolie and his rowdy children, Pitt feels more complete than he ever has.

He even gave up smoking pot after a life-changing trip to Morocco in which the devastating poverty he saw forced him to look at his own life and make changes.

Here is the interview, of what's available now: Brad Pitt won't remember you. If you've met him, he'll have no idea who you are when he meets you again. Even if you've had what he calls "a real conversation," your face will start fading from his memory as soon as you walk away. He'll try to hold on to its outlines, but your features will suffer an inexorable erasure, and the next time he sees you you'll be brand-new to him. He used to try tricking those he'd forgotten into thinking he remembered them, or at least waiting them out for a clue or scrap of context. But then he decided to experiment.

"So many people hate me because they think I'm disrespecting them," he says. "So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. People were more offended. Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me.' But I piss more people off. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. You're being conceited.' But it's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view. I am going to get it tested."

He is convinced he has that thing, that condition he read about a few years ago. What's it called? Is he pronouncing it right? That's it: prosopagnosia. It's gotten to the point where he doesn't even like going out - "that's why I stay at home" - but he's also a public person, the center of crowds. "You meet so many damned people," he says. "And then you meet 'em again."

And so, if you ever meet Brad Pitt, you should know a few things: He'll probably forget you. He'll probably worry about forgetting you. He'll probably worry that you'll think he's an asshole for forgetting you. And then he'll probably do or say something that will inspire you to tell people that you just met Brad Pitt, and he's not an a**hole at all....