Quotes from Will Smith


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


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


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


I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.


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.


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.


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.


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


I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.


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'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.


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


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.


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.


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.


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


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.