Quotes from Will Smith

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.

I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to.

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.

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

The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day.

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

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

What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

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.

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.

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

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.