Will Smith Quotes & Sayings

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]. — Will Smith

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing! — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations. — Will Smith

We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation ... When somebody is 19 years old, they're gonna do what they're gonna do just like we did ... For me the most important thing was for him to know anytime he can call and I'll come whatever happens. — Will Smith

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

Don't let success go to your heads and don't let failure into your hearts. — Will Smith

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali. — Will Smith

There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life. — Will Smith

If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form — Will Smith

The thing I wanted to focus on first was that I wanted to graduate, and (with me) coming back, I knew that I wanted another national championship. Another national championship is everyone's main goal, but we have to take it one game at a time. We can't get ahead of ourselves. We've got Washington first, then we'll see what happens. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

I love living. I think that's infectious, it's something you can't fake. — Will Smith

You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal. — Will Smith

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk. — Will Smith

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue. — Will Smith

If the world attacks and you slide off track, remember one fact, I got your back. — Will Smith

Your words and thoughts have physical power. — Will Smith

Does it ever occur to women that maybe a guy might like to have a plan, you know, because he's nervous? He's not sure that he could just walk up to you and you'd respond if he said "I like you." "I like you." "I like you! — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

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

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be. — Will Smith

The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup. — Will Smith

Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success. — Will Smith

Bouncing in the club where the heat is on,
All night on the beach till the break of dawn — Will Smith

Danger is real, fear is a choice — Will Smith

Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father. — Will Smith

Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have ... to impress people that they don't like!"
Nothing to do w/ "books"
Just like the quote! — Will Smith

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) — Will Smith

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? — Will Smith

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready. — Will Smith

Parents just don't understand. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

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?" — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

You have to make every group you come in contact with better. — Will Smith

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me. — Will Smith

The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be out-worked, period. 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's two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?
You're not going to out-work me. It's such a simple, basic concept. The guy who is willing to hustle the most is going to be the guy that just gets that loose ball. The majority of people who aren't getting the places they want or aren't achieving the things that they want in this business is strictly based on hustle. It's strictly based on being out-worked; it's strictly based on missing crucial opportunities. I say all the time if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready. — Will Smith

Can I say something? Um, I'm the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know. But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer. — Will Smith

A human being having a full emotional conversation with a dog is funny, innately. It's one of those things where you get in a scene and you always go for what is the best joke, and a talking dog for some reason, whatever he says, is hilarious. (about his role wiht a talking dog in the forthcoming MEN IN BLACK sequel. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool. — Will Smith

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are just better at hiding it than others. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality. — Will Smith

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.' — Will Smith

Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet. — Will Smith

The person that works the hardest wins. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

If you're always ready, you don't have to get ready. — Will Smith

I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four. — Will Smith

When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community. — Will Smith

Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day. — Will Smith

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

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. — Will Smith

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 your. And stay. — Will Smith

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

It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and I can feel that it's in there, and I can't get it out. There's so much that I want to say, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it in my art. I can only say it in ham-fisted, clumsy, nonpoetic ways, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about life and talk about love and talk about pain and trials and tribulation in an artistic form. — Will Smith

The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green. — Will Smith

You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant. — Will Smith

I'm motivated by fear ... a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something. — Will Smith

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who ... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

My God, my higher power, it's mine and mine alone. I create my connection, and I decide what my connection is going to be. — Will Smith

I believe that my connection to my higher power, is separate from everybody else's. I don't believe that the Muslims have all the answers and I don't believe the Christians or the Jews have all the answers. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

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? — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting. — Will Smith

When your wondering what to say, or how you look ... just remember ... she is already out with you. That means, she said yes, when she could've said no. That means she made a plan ... when she could've just blown you off. So that means it is no longer you job to make her like you ... It's is your job NOT TO MESS IT UP. — Will Smith

The keys to life are running and reading. When you're running, there's a little person that talks to you and says, "Oh I'm tired. My lung's about to pop. I'm so hurt. There's no way I can possibly continue." You want to quit. If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will how to not quit when things get hard in your life. For reading: there have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you could have
with your parents, with school, with a bully. There's no new problem that someone hasn't already had and written about it in a book. — Will Smith

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

I love you and I'm here for you. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

I know who I am, I know what I believe, that's all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do. — Will Smith

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? — Will Smith

Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. — Will Smith

Sitting in the movie theater watching "Star Wars," I've never had an experience with any form of entertainment that was like that. It was almost spiritual. I couldn't believe that someone's mind created that. And, right, it felt like George Lucas had a piano that was playing my emotions, and he could go ahead and do whatever he wanted and make me lean forward if he wanted, or he could make me go oh, or he could make me hide my face. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity. — Will Smith

Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice. — Will Smith

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

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. — Will Smith

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. — Will Smith

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

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

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%. — Will Smith