Will Smith
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Biography
Willard Carroll Smith II is an American actor, rapper, and film producer. Known for his work in both the screen and music industries, his accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and four Grammy Awards.
"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."
"When you create art, the world has to wait."
"We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care."
"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 your. And stay."
"There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A."
"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."
"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."
"I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House."
"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." Stuff like that just needs reprogramming. … I wake up every day full of hope, positive that every day is going to be better than yesterday. And I'm looking to infect people with my positivity. I think I can start an epidemic."
"The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill, right? I will run. I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, right, there’s two things. You’re getting off first, or I’m going to die. It’s really that simple, right?"
"Aaaah. It's Rewind time. If I could controlled Rewind I would want Fortnite and Marques Brownlee."
"Keep my wife's name out [of] your fucking mouth!"
"That was a horrific night, as you can imagine. You know, there’s many nuances and complexities to it, but at the end of the day, I just, I lost it, you know? And I guess what I would say, you just never know what somebody’s going through. In the audience right now, you are sitting next to strangers, and somebody’s mother died last week, somebody’s child is sick, somebody just lost their job, somebody just found out their spouse cheated. You just don’t know what is going on with people. And I was going through something that night. Not that that justifies my behavior at all."
"I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive."
"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%."
"I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing."
"The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school."
"So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life."
"Life is lived on the edge."
"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."
"Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women."
"I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood."
"I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive."
"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."
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."