Will Smith Quotes

I know who I am, I know what I believe, that's all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do. ~ Will Smith

Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves. ~ Will Smith

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

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing! ~ Will Smith

My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when 'Wild Wild West' opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie, to open at $52 million and to know the movie wasn't good. ~ Will Smith

It's nice to meet you, Evay.' I hold out my hand.
She just stares at it - like it's a spider crawling out of the shower drain. 'I don't make direct female-to-female contact. It depletes the beautification cells.'
O-kay. I glance at Billy. He seems unperturbed. I hook a thumb over my shoulder. 'So...do you guys want to eat? How about a booth?'
When Evay answers, her tone is airy, dazed, like a concussion victim. Or an acting coach - *be the tree.*
'I have my lunch right here.' She opens he realm to reveal an assortment of capsules that make my prenatals look like baby candy. 'But I need water. Do you have clear water from a snowy mountain spring?'
Wow.
Somebody call Will Smith - aliens really have landed.
'Uh...we don't get much snow around here, this time of year. We have Greenville's finest tap water, though.'
She shakes her head. And she still hasn't blinked. Not one freaking time.
'I only drink snowy mountain spring water. ~ Emma Chase

The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it. ~ Will Smith

I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be. ~ Will Smith

The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community. ~ 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. ~ 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. ~ Will Smith

Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me. ~ Will Smith

Before 2010, I had a vision. I saw a family in my mind that I wanted to have. And I was pushing and driving hard for my picture, and then I realized everyone has their own journey. I have to support what they want to do. I have to support the vision that they have for themselves, not my vision. That was excruciating for me. ~ Will Smith

Don't let success go to your head and failure to your heart." - Will Smith. ~ Jennifer Hinsman

If you're always ready, you don't have to get ready. ~ Will Smith

I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to. ~ Will Smith

Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain. ~ Will Smith

As we speak, that is what we are doing. Projects that come to you are not written for you. We have to take a lesson from Will Smith, who develops projects he can shine in. We're trying to develop things from the ground up. ~ Columbus Short

A human being having a full emotional conversation with a dog is funny, innately. It's one of those things where you get in a scene and you always go for what is the best joke, and a talking dog for some reason, whatever he says, is hilarious. (about his role wiht a talking dog in the forthcoming MEN IN BLACK sequel. ~ Will Smith

Whoever said technology would replace all paper > obviously hasn't tried wiping their bottom with an iPad. Q. How do you find Will Smith in the snow? A. You look for the fresh prints. Q. Why should you never date a tennis player? A. Because love means nothing to them. ~ Hudson Moore

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. ~ Will Smith

When your wondering what to say, or how you look ... just remember ... she is already out with you. That means, she said yes, when she could've said no. That means she made a plan ... when she could've just blown you off. So that means it is no longer you job to make her like you ... It's is your job NOT TO MESS IT UP. ~ Will Smith

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. ~ Will Smith

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

Reading ... there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you could have - with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything. There's no problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and wrote about it in a book. ~ Will Smith

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was. ~ Will Smith

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. ~ Will Smith

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history - you have to believe that something different can happen. ~ Will Smith

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring. ~ Nick Cannon

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. ~ Will Smith

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are just better at hiding it than others. ~ Will Smith

Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity. ~ Will Smith

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. ~ Will Smith

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale. ~ Cory Hardrict

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

I love you and I'm here for you. ~ Will Smith

Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting. ~ Will Smith

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion. ~ Will Smith

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it. ~ Will Smith

The biggest thing that I get most excited about is, my family and I would watch television together, and we weren't just passive viewers. Something would happen, and then we would talk about it. When Will Smith was shot on 'Fresh Prince,' that sparked a conversation about safety. ~ Jerrod Carmichael

I'm human viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm a sex machine now. I'm raring to go every second of the day. My wife's loving it. (On the change in his body that Ali's intense physical training required) ~ Will Smith

You are such a dork," I exclaim as my fingers flit over the multitude of images and videos of Will Smith. Pinned quotes and sayings are highlighted, and I chuckle when I recognize a few. "Oh. My. God. Did you actually learn these on purpose?"
He reels me into his arms and kisses the top of my head. "Will I be cementing my dork status if I answer affirmatively?"
"Absolutely." I look up into his beautiful eyes. "But I only love you more for it. ~ Siobhan Davis

Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe. ~ Will Smith

Working with Will Smith was one of the highlights of my career. He is so talented and has a tremendous work ethic. We are still friends, and I reach out to him and his partner to pitch ideas. He loves my mother. In fact, my mother was his son Jaden's acting coach for the movie 'Pursuit of Happiness.' ~ Kim Fields

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. ~ Will Smith

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

Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth. ~ Will Smith

Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit. ~ Will Smith

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

I'm a guy. Since when do we get anything right the first time? ~ Will Smith

Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet. ~ Will Smith

Will Smith is fantastic. ~ Jerry Weintraub

If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen ... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period. ~ Will Smith

I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity. ~ Will Smith

Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more, ~ Will Smith

Does it ever occur to women that maybe a guy might like to have a plan, you know, because he's nervous? He's not sure that he could just walk up to you and you'd respond if he said "I like you." "I like you." "I like you! ~ Will Smith

I've always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention. ~ Will Smith

When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that. ~ Cory Hardrict

Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives. ~ Will Smith

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. ~ Will Smith

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends? ~ Will Smith

God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight. ~ Marques Houston

Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. ~ Will Smith

I went from working with Will Smith to working with Will Smith's wife. So the Smiths have been very good to me. ~ Vivica Fox

Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, godlike feature that only the special among us will ever taste, it's something that truly exists in all of us. ~ Will Smith

For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love. ~ Will Smith

I control every interaction with every human being I'm with. I can actually manage any situation with 98 percent of the people on Earth. ~ Will Smith

Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story. ~ Will Smith

I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man. ~ LL Cool J

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

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

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing. ~ Will Smith

You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be. ~ Will Smith

Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting. Also, I liked 'I Am Legend' because it was so unexpected. The movie wasn't what I thought it'd turn out to be. ~ Kat Graham

Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head. ~ Will Smith

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.' ~ Will Smith

I love living. I think that's infectious, it's something you can't fake. ~ Will Smith

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success ~ Will Smith

I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there. ~ Will Smith

You want something? Go get it. ~ Will Smith

I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt - I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people 'cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples' brands and help them learn a little bit. ~ Diplo

She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself. ~ Will Smith

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings & emotions/ ~ Will Smith

I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA. ~ Kobe Bryant

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

I got a ill gift, I'm real swift
They be like, 'Damn, he's still rich.'
When I send my Men in Black,
Listen, none of them niggas named Will Smith. ~ Cam'ron

Because thats what people do ... they leap and hope to God they can fly! Because otherwise, we just drop like a rock ... wondering the whole way down ... "why in the hell did I jump?" But here I am Sarah, falling. And there's only one person that makes me feel like I can fly ... That's you. ~ Will Smith

The way I like to measure greatness is ... How many people can you make want to be better? ~ Will Smith

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. ~ Will Smith

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

Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you're going to fail, you probably will. ~ Will Smith

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic. ~ Dwayne Johnson

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it. ~ Will Smith

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. ~ Will Smith

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

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. ~ Will Smith

If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better. ~ Will Smith

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. ~ Will Smith

I always want to execute and maximize off of potential, and this is a natural progression. Coming up as a youngster, I always wanted to be a rapper, but I knew that if I did everything right as a rapper, I'd end up as an actor, following the models of Ice Cube, Tupac [Shakur] and Will Smith. ~ T.I.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment problem? ~ Will Smith