Will Smith Quotes

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

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.

I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible.

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.

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.

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.

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

Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

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

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

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.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

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

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

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?

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Sitting in the movie theater watching "Star Wars," I've never had an experience with any form of entertainment that was like that. It was almost spiritual. I couldn't believe that someone's mind created that. And, right, it felt like George Lucas had a piano that was playing my emotions, and he could go ahead and do whatever he wanted and make me lean forward if he wanted, or he could make me go oh, or he could make me hide my face.

I want the world to be better because I was here.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.

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

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.

Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.

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.

I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

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

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?

I believe that my connection, to my higher power, is separate from everybody’s. I don’t believe that the Muslims have all the answers. I don’t believe the Christians have all the answer, or the Jews have all the answers...

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.

The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.

I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie.

If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.

You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

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

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation...When somebody is 19 years old, they're gonna do what they're gonna do just like we did... For me the most important thing was for him to know anytime he can call and I'll come whatever happens.

Listen, Michael Jackson is really funny. To have time to spend with him and actually be around him, he's not what....people think he is. Michael Jackson's like a black belt too, so he will kick your ass if you say something about him." In disbelief the interviewer replied "No, really?" to which Will said, "Yes, Michael Jackson kicked over my head!

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

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.