Quotes By Will Smith

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.

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.

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 would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

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

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.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

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

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.

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.

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

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.