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.

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

It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.

Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.

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.