Top 100 Will Smith Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Money & success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
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#5. Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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?
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#8. There's two kinds of people in this world.There's hammers and nails ...
You decide what to be ..
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#9. Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are just better at hiding it than others.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.
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#13. 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?
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#14. I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.
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#15. Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you're going to fail, you probably will.
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#16. I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.
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#17. Those who say I can, and those who say I can't - are both usually right
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#18. Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.
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#19. 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.
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#20. Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.
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#21. So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.
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#22. I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
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#23. In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
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#24. You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
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#25. The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.
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#26. Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'
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#27. I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her.
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#28. 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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#29. 10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.
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#30. I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.
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#31. I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.
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#32. Running and reading are the keys of life.
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#33. I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.
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#34. I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.
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#35. Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.
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#36. Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.
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#37. I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to.
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#38. 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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#39. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
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#40. I think for me, as a parent, once my children are thoroughly informed, they can make the decisions that they want to make. The only thing that I demand is a complete comprehension [of the information].
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#41. I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
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#42. 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.
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#43. One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.
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#44. My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.
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#45. I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success
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#50. Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.
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#52. I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith?
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#53. Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.
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#54. The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup.
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#55. I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.
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#56. Because thats what people do ... they leap and hope to God they can fly! Because otherwise, we just drop like a rock ... wondering the whole way down ... "why in the hell did I jump?" But here I am Sarah, falling. And there's only one person that makes me feel like I can fly ... That's you.
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#57. My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'
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#58. I believe you need to be educated on what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you necessarily need collage to get there.
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#60. You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.
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#61. You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.
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#62. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.
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#63. Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity.
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#64. Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.
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#65. Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, godlike feature that only the special among us will ever taste, it's something that truly exists in all of us.
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#66. You have to make every group you come in contact with better.
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#67. We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.
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#68. I'm a guy. Since when do we get anything right the first time?
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#69. Don't compare yourself to others. That's when you start to lose confidence in yourself.
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#70. 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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#71. I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.
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#72. 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?
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#73. I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.
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#74. I've always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention.
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#75. The road to success is through commitment.
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#76. 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.
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#77. Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man.
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#78. 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.
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#79. I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
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#80. When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.
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#81. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
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#82. You're the dumbest smart person i know, you're the dumbest dumb person i know
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#83. Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind.
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#85. The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. - Will Smith
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#86. The way I like to measure greatness is ... How many people can you make want to be better?
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#87. I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.
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#88. 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?"
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#89. Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.
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#90. When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it's going to happen tomorrow.
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#91. 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.
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#92. Bouncing in the club where the heat is on,
All night on the beach till the break of dawn
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#93. My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when 'Wild Wild West' opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie, to open at $52 million and to know the movie wasn't good.
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#94. Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.
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#95. I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
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#97. I'm human viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm a sex machine now. I'm raring to go every second of the day. My wife's loving it. (On the change in his body that Ali's intense physical training required)
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#98. Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.
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#99. I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.
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#100. Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as
an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.
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