Top 277 Quotes & Sayings by Will Smith

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Will Smith.

Last updated on November 22, 2024.

Willard Carroll Smith II, also known by his stage name the Fresh Prince, is an American actor, rapper, and producer. Smith began his stardom starring as a fictionalized version of himself on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996). Noted for his work in film, television, and music, Smith has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, four Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award. As of 2021, his films have grossed over $9.3 billion globally, making him one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.

American - Actor | Born: September 25, 1968

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Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

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And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

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

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

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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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I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

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The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

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I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

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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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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%.

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For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

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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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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.

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

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I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

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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 first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.

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A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

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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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Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

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

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I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

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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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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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When you create art, the world has to wait.

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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 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've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

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If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

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The first step is you have to say that you can.

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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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Life is lived on the edge.

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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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You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

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As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

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When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

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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.

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In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

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The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

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So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

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

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

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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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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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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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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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Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you. And Stay.

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

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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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Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.

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Don't ever let someone tell you that you can't do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can't do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period.

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The road to success is through commitment.

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Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice.

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Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.

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Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.

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If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

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Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions

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