Will Smith Quotes - Page 4

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.

If you want somethin', go get it. Period.

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'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.

I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things.

I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.

The game cannot be won, only played.

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.

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.

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

Greatness exists in all of us.

Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.

I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better.

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.

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.

I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.

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

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

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

For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love.

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

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

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

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

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.