Will Smith Quotes

When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.

I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.

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?"

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.

I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.

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

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

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

The guy who's willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy that just gets that loose ball.

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.

The Bible talks about your spirit being immortal, that you were created for existence beyond your physical body. Well, that's no different from Scientology! I don't think that because the word someone uses for spirit is thetan that the definition becomes any different.

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.

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What's the point of being realistic? It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on, but fortunately Edison didn't think so.

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

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.

Boys laugh at what they put girls through - but they won't be laughing when - they're wiping tears off their daughters face for the same reason.

Your words and thoughts have physical power.

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

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 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 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.

For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

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?

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.

The person that works the hardest wins.

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

I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.

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.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.

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

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.

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.

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

The road to success is through commitment.

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

When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it's going to happen tomorrow.

A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.

Your life will become better by making other lives better.

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

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.

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.

I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.

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