Will Smith

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.

Will Smith

The Bible talks about your spirit being immortal, that you were created for existence beyond your physical body. Well, that’s no different from Scientology! I don’t think that because the word someone uses for spirit is thetan that the definition becomes any different.

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

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

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.’

Will Smith

The game cannot be won, only played.

Will Smith

The value of a story isn’t that it just has a narcotic effect. It’s that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

Will Smith

There’s a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don’t give you. It’s the two hour construct. You’re in there and it needs to climax and finish.

Will Smith

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

Will Smith

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