Quotes By Will Smith

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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%.

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.

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.

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 don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

Life is lived on the edge.