Will Smith Quotes
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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.
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Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
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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.
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Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
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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.
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I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.
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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.
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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.
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Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
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I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
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I want the world to be better because I was here.
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Life is lived on the edge.
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I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
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I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
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I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
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I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.
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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.
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I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.
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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.
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I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.
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My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
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I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
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I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
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My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.