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I Honestly Believe That If I Decided To Be The President Of The United States, I Could Do It. That Might Sound Foolish To Some. But In My Mind, If Ronald Reagan Can Become President, Why Not Will Smith?

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I Honestly Believe That If I Decided To Be The President Of The United States, I Could Do It. That Might Sound Foolish To Some. But In My Mind, If Ronald Reagan Can Become President, Why Not Will Smith?

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Probably Means There's A Good Chance. Possibly Means We Might Or We Might Not.

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Our Thoughts, Our Feelings, Our Dreams, Our Ideas, Are Physical In The Universe.

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I've Always Been Attracted To Characters With Insurmountable Odds And Obstacles, Because Innately, However Inarticulately I've Always Believed That My Dreams And My Desires Can Command And Bend Time And Space To Be The Things That I Want Them To Be.

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...

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Reading... There Have Been Millions And Billions And Billions And Gazillions Of People That Have Lived Before All Of Us. There's No New Problem You Could Have - With Your Parents, With School, With A Bully, With Anything. There's No Problem You Can Have That Someone Hasn't Already Solved And Wrote About It In A Book.

I'm Profoundly Changed. There's A Bittersweet Emotion That I Feel From Playing This Role. . . . I Want The World To Be Different Because I Was Here. However Lofty Or Crazy Or Delusional That May Sound, I Want People's Lives To Be Better Because I Was Here.

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I Think That My Sensibilities Are Becoming Slightly Less Delicate And I'm Venturing Out In A Storytelling World.

I've Never Really Viewed Myself As Particularly Talented. I've Viewed Myself As Slightly Above Average In Talent. And Where I Excel Is Ridiculous, Sickening, Work Ethic. You Know, While The Other Guy's Sleeping? I'm Working. While The Other Guy's Eatin'? I'm Working. While The Other Guy's Making Love, I Mean, I'm Making Love, Too. But I'm Working Really Hard At It.

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.

There Are So Many People Who Have Lived And Died Before You. You Will Never Have A New Problem; You're Not Going To Ever Have A New Problem. Somebody Wrote The Answer Down In A Book Somewhere.

If We Each Get On A Treadmill Right Now, One Of Two Things Is Going To Happen... Either You're Going To Get Off First Or I Am Going To Die. Period.

She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body. So When She Goes Out Into The World, She's Going Out With A Command That Is Hers. She Is Used To Making Those, Decisions Herself.

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