Will Smith
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.Collection: Children
You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there are two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?Collection: Life
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.Collection: Feelings
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.Collection: Air
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.Collection: Thinking
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...Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Mean
The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.Collection: Father
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.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Grandmother
To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.Collection: Blessed
There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and it needs to climax and finish.Collection: Two
I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie.Collection: People
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.Collection: Husband
I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.Collection: Thinking
I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.Collection: Two
Your life will become better by making other lives better.Collection: Growth
One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.Collection: Teacher
Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.Collection: Mask
Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.Collection: Hurt
Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.Collection: Writing
The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Relationship
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.Collection: Skills
If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.Collection: Proactive
I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.Collection: Hate
Greatness lives on the edge of destructionCollection: Greatness
I just think that the gifts that God has given me and the attention that I have, I just don't feel like acting is the limit of it. I just feel like there's so much more that I could do...And, you know, every day I wake up and I try to do a little more and I just want the world to be different and better because I was here.Collection: Thinking
You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough. The only thing that will ever satiate that existential thirst is love. And I just remember that day I made the shift from wanting to be a winner to wanting to have the most powerful, deep, and beautiful relationships I could possibly have.Collection: Beautiful
The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill.Collection: Hard Work
I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.Collection: Crazy
You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.Collection: Inspirational
Danger is very real but fear is a choice.Collection: Real
When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.Collection: Running
My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'Collection: Grandmother
Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.Collection: Love
I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time.Collection: Life
If you want somethin', go get it. Period.Collection: Want Something
You'd be surprised how much you don't understand what other people see your actions as; how other people view the things you say and the things that you do. And a lot of times just clarifying what your intentions are with people makes a huge difference.Collection: People
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?"Collection: Thinking
I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too. But I'm working really hard at it.Collection: Mean
I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things.Collection: Running
I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.Collection: Not Afraid
The game cannot be won, only played.Collection: Suicidal
I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be.Collection: Real
Be magic choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to believe. We are who we choose to be.Collection: Believe
Greatness exists in all of us.Collection: Greatness