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My Biggest Emotional Defeat And The Greatest Emotional Pain I've Had As An Actor Was When "wild Wild West" Opened Up To $52 Million. The Movie Wasn't Good. And It Hurt So Bad To Be The No. 1 Movie - To Open At $52 Million - And To Know The Movie Wasn't Good.

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My Biggest Emotional Defeat

Will Smith

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My Biggest Emotional Defeat And The Greatest Emotional Pain I've Had As An Actor Was When "wild Wild West" Opened Up To $52 Million. The Movie Wasn't Good. And It Hurt So Bad To Be The No. 1 Movie - To Open At $52 Million - And To Know The Movie Wasn't Good.

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I Believe That Eclecticism Is A Virtue. It May Not Be A Word, But Its Definitely A Virtue.

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.

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.

Even Hitler Didn't Wake Up Going, 'let Me Do The Most Evil Thing I Can Do Today.' I Think He Woke Up In The Morning And Using A Twisted, Backwards Logic, He Set Out To Do What He Thought Was 'good.'

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'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.

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!

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