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

Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.

Just stay ready. Stay in shape and then you don't have to rush to train before the movie starts. I'll show you my abs later because I’m in shape. But that idea, if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.

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.

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.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.