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.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

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 was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.

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.

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.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

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

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.

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.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.