Quotes from Will Smith

Life is lived on the edge.

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.

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

Part of what makes a human being a human being is the imperfections. Like, you wouldn't give a robot my ears. You just wouldn't do that.

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%.

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.

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

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.

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

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

When you create art, the world has to wait.

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

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.

My God, my higher power. It's mine and mine alone. I create my connection and I decide how my connection is going to be.

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

Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.

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.

I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.

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

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

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

You'll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.