Will Smith quotes:

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.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

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

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

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

Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.

I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.

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.

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.

Listen, Michael Jackson is really funny. To have time to spend with him and actually be around him, he's not what....people think he is. Michael Jackson's like a black belt too, so he will kick your ass if you say something about him." In disbelief the interviewer replied "No, really?" to which Will said, "Yes, Michael Jackson kicked over my head!

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?

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.

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.

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.

I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history - you have to believe that something different can happen.

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

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

Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple.

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.

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

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." [On his first season of THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR (1990)]

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

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.

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

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%.

I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

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.

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.

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.

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

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

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)

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".

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.

Tons of women would love to have sex with me. I hate the image of black men as promiscuous and unable to control themselves sexually. I don't like that image.

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.

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

The road to success is through commitment.

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side.

Danger is real, fear is a choice

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.

If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

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.

Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind.

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

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

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.

I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.

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.

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

You want something? Go get it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Life is lived on the edge.

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

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

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

10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.

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.

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

Be magic choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to believe. We are who we choose to be.

Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.

Before 2010, I had a vision. I saw a family in my mind that I wanted to have. And I was pushing and driving hard for my picture, and then I realized everyone has their own journey. I have to support what they want to do. I have to support the vision that they have for themselves, not my vision. That was excruciating for me.

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

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.

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What's the point of being realistic? It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on, but fortunately Edison didn't think so.

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity

Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you're going to fail, you probably will.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

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

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard

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.

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.