Quotes By Will Smith

I want the world to be better because I was here.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.