Quotes by 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

Love

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

Success

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

— Will Smith

Wisdom

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

— Will Smith

Success

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

Wisdom

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

Love

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

Education

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

— Will Smith

Life

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

— Will Smith

Success

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

— Will Smith

Hope

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

— Will Smith

Education

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

— Will Smith

Life

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

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?

— Will Smith

Friendship

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

— Will Smith

Success

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.

— Will Smith

Love

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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.

— Will Smith

Wisdom

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.

— Will Smith

Success

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

Wisdom

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

— Will Smith

Wisdom

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

— Will Smith

Wisdom

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

— Will Smith

Life