Will Smith Quotes

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• I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
• I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
• 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.
• 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.
• I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
• Life is lived on the edge.
• When you create art, the world has to wait.
• The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'
• I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.
• I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
• Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
• When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.
• I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.
• I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.
• A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.
• As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
• For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
• 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.
• I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
• I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

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