Quotes By Will Smith

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

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

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

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

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

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

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

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.

Life is lived on the edge.

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.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

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.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

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

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.