Will Smith is an American actor, rapper, and film producer. He has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards. He is best known for his roles in films such as Men in Black, The Pursuit of Happyness, and Aladdin. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Will Smith on fear, life, love.
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you. And stay.
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.
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.
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.
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.
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Will Smith Image Quotes
Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit. — Will Smith
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. — Will Smith
Will Smith Short Quotes
In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.
If the world attacks and you slide off track, remember one fact, I got your back.
I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.
The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.
Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity
The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.
If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.
Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
If you're abest during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
Will Smith Quotes About Fear
Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice. — Will Smith
Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.
Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on. — Will Smith
Danger is very real but fear is a choice. — Will Smith
I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things. — Will Smith
The first step is you have to say that you can.
I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
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Will Smith Quotes About Life
Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
Greatness lives on the edge of destruction — Will Smith
Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving. — Will Smith
Your life will become better by making other lives better. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feeling and emotions.
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. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?" — Will Smith
There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life. — Will Smith
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Will Smith Quotes About Love
10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
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
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. — Will Smith
Life is...the moments that take your breath away. — Will Smith
I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her. — Will Smith
I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood. — Will Smith
Will Smith Quotes About Success
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. — Will Smith
There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. — Will Smith
There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day. — Will Smith
Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success. — Will Smith
I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself. — Will Smith
We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care. — Will Smith
Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head. — Will Smith
The road to success is through commitment. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
Will Smith Quotes About Happiness
Begin each day as if it were on purpose. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
Will Smith Quotes About People
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. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you. — Will Smith
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
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. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard — Will Smith
For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie. — Will Smith
Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing! — Will Smith
Will Smith Quotes About Work
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
While the other guy's sleeping?
I'm working.
While the other guy's eatin'?
I'm working. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. — Will Smith
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
The person that works the hardest wins. — Will Smith
Things work in spite of me sometimes. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes. — Will Smith
Will Smith Quotes About Black
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
Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me. — Will Smith
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
The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
Will Smith Quotes About School
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. — Will Smith
My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous. — Will Smith
I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school. — Will Smith
Will Smith Famous Quotes And Sayings
Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit. — Will Smith
Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day. — Will Smith
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. — Will Smith
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
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. — Will Smith
I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. — Will Smith
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". — Will Smith
Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind. — Will Smith
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone. — Will Smith
Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth. — Will Smith
The first step is you have to say that you can. — Will Smith
You can cry, ain't no shame in it. — Will Smith
For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth. — Will Smith
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? — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations. — Will Smith
Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
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
The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it. — Will Smith
Be magic choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to believe. We are who we choose to be. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power. — Will Smith
It's better to be prepared than to get ready. — Will Smith
I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it. — Will Smith
On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.' — Will Smith
I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold. — Will Smith
I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid. — Will Smith
I don't necessarily believe in organized religion. — Will Smith
Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.' — Will Smith
You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is. — Will Smith
I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith? — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember. — Will Smith
I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious. — Will Smith
Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not. — Will Smith
If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. — Will Smith
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. — Will Smith
I want the world to be better because I was here. — Will Smith
Life Lessons by Will Smith
Will Smith has taught us to stay humble and never give up on our dreams, no matter how hard it may seem. He has also taught us to stay positive and to always believe in ourselves, no matter what the situation. Lastly, he has taught us the importance of hard work and dedication, and to never give up on our goals.
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