Will Smith Quotations

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.

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.

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.

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

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

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

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

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.

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

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.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

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

I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

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.

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

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

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.

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

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%.

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

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

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

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

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

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

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

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

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too. But I'm working really hard at it.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

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

My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.

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

My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed.

Your words and thoughts have physical power.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

She has a powerful energy. I'd love to work with her.

But we've got to stop those one and two plays, because they will hurt us and they will wind up making us lose a game.

Girl when the nights cold I'm warm holding the fact That I got you holding my back With my feelings stealing the blue of the sky leaving them grey Girl you the sun to brighten up my day When it seem like the hill to steep and my vision getting blurry Call on you my dove be there in a hurry When all is gone wrong and I can't go on you my angel immortalised in song baby forever

From the first time the doctor placed you in my armsI knew I'd meet death before I'd let you meet harmAlthough questions arose in my mind, would I be man enough?

From the first time the doctor placed you in my arms I knew I'd meet death before I'd let you meet harm Although questions arose in my mind, would I be man enough?

Here I stand before you - brown.Color of the mountainsColossal as the earthWrapped so deliciously within my own joy and miseryFeathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mindHere I stand before you, the color of the nightFrozen by the potential of me

He was standing there for a good minute or two, contemplating to do it or not. Next thing you know, he just took off running and jumped off.

Having a corporate sponsor for their New Year's Eve party is a preliminary conversation. This is a very premature E-mail that went out. Will and Jada were just looking for some way to have an over-the-top party that benefited their charity . This is how parties get thrown every single day.

Like last year, we were pretty good at stopping the run, but it was just one or two big plays here and there,

I think I'm doing OK. I think our No. 1 defense is doing fine. It's a mental thing, not physical mistakes. I don't think I've made any mistakes like that. The mistakes we made against Baltimore wasn't me.

I think his head wasn't in the game the first half. I think they underestimated our speed on defense, but they made some good adjustments in the second half.

I was blown away by the Big B and I want to be known as Big W.

Today we hold this truth to be self-evident: We are all in this together.

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

We wanted to start this right with someone to tell us what we were doing.

We were out for the relay records. We wanted them in all three.

Afro Angel, born against the worldYou don't have to sell your soul and throw away your prideAfro Angel, sent from heaven aboveNever forget that you are lovedYou know that you are loved

Afro Angel, born against the world You don't have to sell your soul and throw away your pride Afro Angel, sent from heaven above Never forget that you are loved You know that you are loved

Competence is first and foremost. You want to be seen doing something well.

They're your relatives, sons, daughters ... colleagues and employees. Just people with a dream.

As soon as Andy played that opening lick, the crowd went bananas. Everyone was screaming and singing along with me. It was probably the most beautiful moment I've had on stage in my life.

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their sideNot only down for the good timesBut also down through the bad times

I love urban riding. It's one of the coolest aspects of skiing.

Hey it's Dan Marino! If I were Dan Marino I'd definitely buy this car. Well, not this car. I'm going to (mess) this car up. But something like it.

I desperately needed a date doctor in high school.

I don't see a ton of use for it. With all the high-speed wireless services out there now, it will be tough for it to fit in.

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.

I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.

Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and I can feel that it's in there, and I can't get it out. There's so much that I want to say, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it in my art. I can only say it in ham-fisted, clumsy, nonpoetic ways, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about life and talk about love and talk about pain and trials and tribulation in an artistic form.

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"

Sitting in the movie theater watching "Star Wars," I've never had an experience with any form of entertainment that was like that. It was almost spiritual. I couldn't believe that someone's mind created that. And, right, it felt like George Lucas had a piano that was playing my emotions, and he could go ahead and do whatever he wanted and make me lean forward if he wanted, or he could make me go oh, or he could make me hide my face.

Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There's editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency.

I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.

You've got to run your career. What happens is a lot of times artists have this talent and they're just looking for somebody to take it and do something with it. And you have to be the creative force.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

I think for me, as a parent, once my children are thoroughly informed, they can make the decisions that they want to make. The only thing that I demand is a complete comprehension [of the information].

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.

I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.

The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality.

I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal.

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

When you're talking to a person, it only matters what they are perceiving. You only need them to perceive you as a loving husband. You don't necessarily need to be one. That's always a good road, if you actually are one. But what people are perceiving will dictate what their life is, and ultimately what your interaction is.

I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.