Brad Pitt says he owes his Hollywood career to strippers

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Angelina Jolie's man credits the girls for convincing him to give acting a go.

Pitt admits he used to ferry the girls around parties in Los Angeles before he became a big screen icon. And that he first attended an L.A acting class with one of the girls.

"Strippers changed my life," Pitt told Newsweek magazine. "I had a job driving strippers around. "My job was to drive them to bachelor parties and things.

"I'd pick them up, and at the gig I'd collect the money, play the bad Prince tapes and catch the girls' clothes. "It was not a wholesome atmosphere, and it got very depressing. "After two months I went in to quit and the guy said, 'Listen, I've got this one last gig tonight.' So I did it, and this girl - I'd never met before - was in an acting class taught by a man named Roy London. "I went and checked it out, and it really set me on the path to where I am now."

Pitt revealed his path into acting during a round-table discussion with Helen Mirren, Forest Whitaker, Cate Blanchett and Leonardo DiCaprio. Pitt also revealed that John Travolta's 'Saturday Night Fever' was the movie that made him want to be an actor.

"I remember sneaking into Saturday Night Fever and it had a profound effect on me."