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Coming From Sitcom Television And Coming From Music You Burn Up Every Single Second. You Don't Leave Anything There. You Burn It Up And You Pass Out When You Walk Off Stage, So I Took That Concept Into Acting.

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Coming From Sitcom Television

Will Smith

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Coming From Sitcom Television And Coming From Music You Burn Up Every Single Second. You Don't Leave Anything There. You Burn It Up And You Pass Out When You Walk Off Stage, So I Took That Concept Into Acting.

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Just Because The Kid's Cute, Doesn't Mean You're Not The Father.

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

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We Spend Money That We Do Not Have, On Things We Do Not Need, To Impress People Who Do Not Care.

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Summer, Summer, Summertime Time To Sit Back And Unwind.

I Feel Like I Could Run For President. People Often Laugh, But If I Set My Mind To It, Within The Next 15 Years I Could Be In The White House.

There's No Easy Way Around It, No Matter How Talented You Are ... Your Talent Is Going To Fail You If You're Not Skilled. If You Don't Study, If You Don't Work Really Hard And Dedicate Yourself To Being Better Every Single Day, You 'll Never Be Able To Communicate With People Your Artistry The Way That You Want!

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 Quality Of Your Life Was Determined By The Quality Of Your Service. I'm Attracted To Characters Who Have A Higher Calling, Who Want To Serve In Ways Where You Get Beyond The Comfortable Service And You Get Into The Space Of The Sacrificial. And I Really Am Attracted To Characters Who Just Want To Do Things That Brighten The World. That Probably Is The Central Aspect Of My Personality.

Something Hurts, Lean In. You Just Lean Into That Point Until It Loses Its Power Over You. There's A Certain Amount Of Suffering That You Have To Be Willing To Sustain If You Want To Have A Good Life. And The Real Trick Is To Be Able To Sustain It With Your Heart Open And Still Be Loving.

I Want The World To Be Better Because I Was Here.

And Where I Excel Is Ridiculous, Sickening, Work Ethic. You Know, While The Other Guy's Sleeping? I'm Working.

Being Famous Is Such A Gift For Me Because Small Things Make People's Lives Brighter. You Just Shake Somebody's Hand. You Just Smile And Write Your Name And People Will Talk About It For The Rest Of Their Lives.

I Look At Bill Clinton, The Way I Look At Bill Gates. As Long As My Microsoft Stock Is Going Up, I Don't Care What Bill Gates Does In The Privacy Of His Own Home.

I Keep Going Because I Doubt Myself. It Drives Me To Be Better. I've Learned That The Mastery Of Self-doubt Is The Key To Success. It's Like Being Animated By The Love Of A Woman - The Need To Be Worthy Of Her.

You've Got To Run Your Career. What Happens Is A Lot Of Times Artists Have This Talent And They're Just Looking For Somebody To Take It And Do Something With It. And You Have To Be The Creative Force.

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.

I Want The World To Be Better Because I Was Here. I Want My Life, I Want My Work, My Family, I Want It To Mean Something And If You Are Not Making Someone Else's Life Better Then You Are Wasting Your Time.

When You Find Things That Are Tried And True For Millennia, You Can Bet That It's Going To Happen Tomorrow.

For Our Family, The Entire Structure Of Our Life, Our Home, Our Business Relationships - The Entire Purpose Is For Everyone To Be Able To Create In A Way That Makes Them Happy. Fame Is Almost An Inconsequential By-product Of What We're Really Trying To Accomplish. We Are Trying To Put Great Things Into The World, We're Trying To Have Fun, And We're Trying To Become The Greatest Versions Of Ourselves In The Process Of Doing Things We Love.

I'm A Student Of World Religion, So To Me, It's Hugely Important To Have Knowledge And To Understand What People Are Doing.

World Religions

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For Me And My Storytelling And The Way That I Embrace Stories In The Way That I Embrace Characters, I Desperately Needed To Know That Everything Was Okay.

Being Realistic Is The Most Commonly Traveled Road To Mediocrity. Why Would You Be Realistic? What's The Point Of Being Realistic? I'm Going To Do It. It's Done. It's Already Done. The Second I Decide It's Done, It's Already Done.

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.

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.

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Why Is Life At This Point In The Twentieth Century So Focused Upon The Very Beginning Of Life And The Very End Of Life? What About The 80 Years We Have To Live Between Those Two Inexorable Bookends?

Haters Are The People Who Will Broadcast Your Failures And Whisper Your Success.

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?

The Things That Have Been Most Valuable To Me I Did Not Learn In School. Traditional Education Is Based On Facts And Figures And Passing Tests - Not On A Comprehension Of The Material And Its Application To Your Life.

Begin Each Day As If It Were On Purpose.

Listen, Michael Jackson Is Really Funny. To Have Time To Spend With Him And Actually Be Around Him, He's Not What....people Think He Is. Michael Jackson's Like A Black Belt Too, So He Will Kick Your Ass If You Say Something About Him." In Disbelief The Interviewer Replied "no, Really?" To Which Will Said, "yes, Michael Jackson Kicked Over My Head!

Believing In Yourself Is The First Step To Accomplishing Any Goal. If You Think You're Going To Fail, You Probably Will.

You Can Create Whatever You Want. You Just Have To Know What You Want And Take The Opportunities As They Come Your Way. We Are Who We Choose To Be.

You Can't Be Scared To Die For The Truth. The Truth Is The Only Thing That Is Ever Going To Be Constant.

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