"To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry."
Actor, Producer, Rapper
Will Smith is an acclaimed actor and producer known for his roles in films like 'Men in Black' and 'Pursuit of Happyness', emphasizing themes of resilience and authenticity.
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"To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry."
"I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy."
"I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv."
"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."
"So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything."
"I believe that my connection, to my higher power, is separate from everybody’s. I don’t believe that the Muslims have all the answers. I don’t believe the Christians have all the answer, or the Jews have all the answers..."
"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 thing I wanted to focus on first was that I wanted to graduate, and (with me) coming back, I knew that I wanted another national championship. Another national championship is everyone's main goal, but we have to take it one game at a time. We can't get ahead of ourselves. We've got Washington first, then we'll see what happens."
"Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you."
"I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was."
"A human being having a full emotional conversation with a dog is funny, innately. It's one of those things where you get in a scene and you always go for what is the best joke, and a talking dog for some reason, whatever he says, is hilarious." (about his role wiht a talking dog in the forthcoming MEN IN BLACK sequel."