Will Smith

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

“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.”

“When you create art, the world has to wait.”

“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.”

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

“I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.”

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

“I wanna say something that I want you to remember for the rest of your life, OK? I want you to listen closely. I'm giving you a key to life right now, this is the key to life. The key to life, the key to life is running and reading. Oh right? Now listen very seriously, the key to life is running and reading. Right now, why running? When you're running and you are there and you're running 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. Running. Oh right? That's the first key to life. Reading. The reason the reading is so important. There've been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you can have with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything, there's no problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and wrote about it in a book. So they keys to life are running and reading.”

“I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.”

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

“We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.”

“Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.”

“אפילו היטלר לא קם בבוקר ואמר: 'תנו לי לעשות את הדבר הכי רע שאני יכול לעשות היום.' אני חושב שהוא התעורר בבוקר ובעזרת היגיון מעוות ומפגר הוא יצא לעשות מה שבעיניו נחשב 'טוב'. דברים כאלה רק צריכים תכנות מחדש... אני מתעורר כל בוקר מלא בתקווה ואופטימיות שכל יום הולך להיות יותר טוב מאתמול. ואני רוצה להדביק אנשים באופטימיות שלי. אני חושב שאני יכול להתחיל מגפה.”

“אני יודע מי אני, אני יודע במה אני מאמין וזה כל מה שאני צריך לדעת.”

“האמת היא הדבר הקבוע היחיד.”

“אין סיבה שתהיה לך תוכנית ב', זה רק מסיח את דעתך מתוכנית א'.”

“אל תאחל לי בהצלחה לפני הליכתי אל הקרב, משתמע מכך שאינני מוכן ועליי להסתמך על המזל.”

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

“If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.”

“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.”