The "Moneyball" star, whose combined wealth with his fiancee Angelina Jolie tops 172 million pounds and the couple are involved in lots of charity work, said it is impossible to sort global poverty despite donating money to a string of international charities, reported Sun online.
"Listen, it's never enough and it's a whole new set of problems, just with a different scale. I hit the lottery so I think you need to pass that on. You can't get to every beggar on the street because you end up with nothing in your pocket," he said.
The couple have given millions to good causes over the years through their Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
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