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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.

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Don't Ever Let Someone Tell You That You Can't Do Something. You Got A Dream, You Gotta Protect It. When People Can't Do Something Themselves, They Are Going To Tell You That You Can't Do It. You Want Something, Go Get It. Period.

Give Me About 10 Years, I'm Going To Run For President. If I Can Squeeze In An Nba Championship Before That, I'll Do It.

Nba Championships

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

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.

If The World Attacks And You Slide Off Track, Remember One Fact, I Got Your Back.

Here I Stand Before You - Brown. Color Of The Mountains Colossal As The Earth Wrapped So Deliciously Within My Own Joy And Misery Feathers Of My Wings Paralyzed By The Distance Of My Mind Here I Stand Before You, The Color Of The Night Frozen By The Potential Of Me.

Being Realistic Is The Most Commonly Travelled Road To Mediocrity. What's The Point Of Being Realistic? It's Unrealistic To Walk Into A Room, Flip A Switch, And Have Light Come On, But Fortunately Edison Didn't Think So.

I Want To Represent Possibilities.

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 Have A Great Time With My Life, And I Wanna Share It.

Your Life Will Become Better By Making Other Lives Better.

Wasting Your Time

Personality Types

I Just Think That The Gifts That God Has Given Me And The Attention That I Have, I Just Don't Feel Like Acting Is The Limit Of It. I Just Feel Like There's So Much More That I Could Do...and, You Know, Every Day I Wake Up And I Try To Do A Little More And I Just Want The World To Be Different And Better Because I Was Here.

The Big Thing I Tell My Kids Is You Have To Control How You Label Things. It's Very Important To Me They Understand The Power They Have To Create The Lives That They Want.

The First Step Is You Have To Say That You Can.

Being Realistic Is The Quickest Path To Mediocrity

Those Who Say I Can, And Those Who Say I Can't - Are Both Usually Right

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.

Famous Inspirational

I Have No Idea What My Limits Are. I Believe That If I Set My Mind To It, Within The Next Fifteen Years, I Would Be The President Of The United States.

A Rapper Is About Being Completely True To Yourself. Being An Actor Is About Changing Who You Are.

True To Yourself

I Am Inspired Beyond My Ability To Articulate... And Now I Know What And Who I Want To Be... A Soldier For Peace.

I'm Starting To Be A Lot More Comfortable With Allowing People To Decide For Themselves And Almost Creating A Situation That Forces People To Decide For Themselves Whether They Like It Or Don't Like It Or Agree With The Character Or Disagree With The Character.

We Think It Hugely Important To Support Young Artists, There Is A War Against That Kind Of Artistry, That Kind Of Creation...when Somebody Is 19 Years Old, They're Gonna Do What They're Gonna Do Just Like We Did... For Me The Most Important Thing Was For Him To Know Anytime He Can Call And I'll Come Whatever Happens.

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.

Money And Success Don't Change People; They Merely Amplify What Is Already There.

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.

Because I Know That Hope And Fear Are Connected, I Put My Mask Of Hope On.

Hopes And Fears

It's Better To Be Prepared Than To Get Ready.

Well, All I Know Is What I Read In The Papers.

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.

I Control Every Interaction With Every Human Being I'm With. I Can Actually Manage Any Situation With 98 Percent Of The People On Earth.

Just Stay Ready. Stay In Shape And Then You Don't Have To Rush To Train Before The Movie Starts. I'll Show You My Abs Later Because I’m In Shape. But That Idea, If You Stay Ready, You Don’t Have To Get Ready.

Life Is...the Moments That Take Your Breath Away.

Inspiring Movie

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

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.

When You're Talking To A Person, It Only Matters What They Are Perceiving. You Only Need Them To Perceive You As A Loving Husband. You Don't Necessarily Need To Be One. That's Always A Good Road, If You Actually Are One. But What People Are Perceiving Will Dictate What Their Life Is, And Ultimately What Your Interaction Is.

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

The Thing I Wanted To Focus On First Was That I Wanted To Graduate, And (with Me) Coming Back, I Knew That I Wanted Another National Championship. Another National Championship Is Everyone's Main Goal, But We Have To Take It One Game At A Time. We Can't Get Ahead Of Ourselves. We've Got Washington First, Then We'll See What Happens.

Life Is Lived On The Edge.

What People Are Perceiving Will Dictate What Their Life And Ultimately What Your Interaction Is.

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.

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.

So To Really Be Able To Dive Into What Does It Mean To Be Broken By An Experience, And I Developed It Just Through Research And Talking And Understanding The Truth Of What It Means To Lose Everything.

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!

There's So Much Negative Imagery Of Black Fatherhood. I've Got Tons Of Friends That Are Doing The Right Thing By Their Kids, And Doing The Right Thing As A Father - And How Come That's Not As Newsworthy?

I'm Not Afraid To Die On A Treadmill.

I Met My Father For The First Time When I Was 28 Years Old. I Made Up My Mind That When I Had Children, My Children Were Going To Know Who Their Father Was.

Begging For Acknowledgment, Or Even Asking, Diminishes Dignity And Diminishes Power.

I'm Human Viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm A Sex Machine Now. I'm Raring To Go Every Second Of The Day. My Wife's Loving It.

Marriage Is The Hardest Thing You Will Ever Do. The Secret Is Removing Divorce As An Option. Anybody Who Gives Themselves That Option Will Get A Divorce.

The Best Feeling In The World Is Knowing That You Actually Mean Something To Someone.

I've Always Considered Myself To Be Just Average Talent And What I Have Is A Ridiculous Insane Obsessiveness For Practice And Preparation.

Everybody Need A Partner To Stand Right By Their Side. Not Only Down For The Good Times. But Also Down Through The Bad Times.

Basic Principles: No Matter What, No Matter When, No Matter Who... Any Man Has A Chance To Sweep Any Woman Off Her Feet. He Just Needs The Right Broom.

It's Been Rough For Me Trying To Find My Position In The Struggle And Where My Voice Is Needed And Helpful. You Know, I Grew Up In Philadelphia, And Philadelphia Has A Really Rough Police-brutality History. I Grew Up In A Neighborhood Where It Was Very Clear That The Police Were "them" And We Were "us".

I Love Creating Music And Television And Film. I Love The Hustle, I Love The Grind, I Love Working Sixteen- And Eighteen-hour Days And Waking Up At Four The Next Morning And Going To The Gym. I Love That.

I Think With Movies I Am Really Connecting To The Joseph Campbell Idea Of The Collective Unconscious.

Collective Unconscious

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.

So If You Stay Ready, You Ain't Gotta Get Ready, And That Is How I Run My Life.

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.

My Skin Is Hard When It Comes To My Music. But With My Movies, I'm Still A Virgin In A Lot Of Ways. I'm Not Used To Being Shot Down For No Reason.

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

Life Is Dangerous And You're Not Gonna Live A Life Without Risk.

I Truly Believe That I Can Be President Of The Us If I Really Want To.

While The Other Guy's Sleeping? I'm Working. While The Other Guy's Eatin'? I'm Working.

I Want To Take Care Of People. I Want To Help People. The Maximum Joy That I Have Is When I Can Create Something That Makes Someone Else's Life Lighter, Brighter, Or Better.

I'm The Type Of Person Who Is Always Going To Be Somewhat Dissatisfied With Myself. I'm Never Going To Be Smart Enough. I'm Never Going To Be A Good Enough Father And Husband. I'm Never Going To Be A Good Enough Actor For Myself. I Just Never Will Be, And I Have To Get Comfortable With Waking Up Every Day And Trying To Move Some Little Increment Closer To The Person I Have Always Dreamed Of Being. This Is The Journey.

Danger Is Very Real But Fear Is A Choice.

Face Your Fears

My Grandmother Used To Always Say, 'people Need To Be Worth Something.'

You Be As Truthful As You Can To A Specific Situation, And It Will Become Universal.

10 Ways To Love: Listen, Speak, Give, Pray, Answer, Share, Enjoy, Trust, Forgive, Promise.

The Only Man You Will Ever Get Is Some Fool Named Grady Who Falls Asleep In His Soup.

Thomas Jefferson Was A Real Poet. He Was Slick With That 'pursuit' Of Happiness Because The 'pursuit' Puts It Back On You.

Pursuit Of Happiness

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.

When I Was Growing Up, I Installed Refrigerators In Supermarkets. My Father Was An Electrical Engineer.

When You Connect To A Primal Idea - Life, Death, Hunger, Hope, Fear - Any Of Those Primal Ideas Are Going To Translate, And I Think That's The Thing That I've Always Been Attracted To In My Work.

If You Look At Somebody Like 50 Cent, Ain't Nobody Telling 50 What To Do And How To Do What He Does. He Has A Vision Of Who He Wants To Be, And He Instructs Everybody Along Those Lines.

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.

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.

I Think It Would Be Arrogant And Borderline Foolish To Believe There's No Other Life Forms That Exist Out There.

Whatever You Have Is Gonna Die And You Are Gonna Have To Rebirth Something New. You Have To Be Willing To Ride The Waves.

I Try To Speak My Points Of View About Black America, And How I Feel About Black Men And The Role That Black Men Should Play In Their Lives With Their Children And In Their Lives With Their Women.

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.

Tons Of Women Would Love To Have Sex With Me. I Hate The Image Of Black Men As Promiscuous And Unable To Control Themselves Sexually. I Don't Like That Image.

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

I Work From Almost A Dangerous Place In My Mind Sometimes.

Never Lie To People, Because The People You Are Able To Lie To, Are The People Who Trust You.

We Didn't Grow Up With The Sense That Where We Were Was Where We Were Gonna Be. We Grew Up With The Sense That Where We Were Almost Didn't Matter, Because We Will Be Becoming Something Greater.

You Might Have More Talent Than Me, You Might Be Smarter Than Me, You Might Be Sexier Than Me, You Might Be All Of Those Things You Got It On Me In Nine Categories. But If We Get On The Treadmill Together, There Are Two Things: You're Getting Off First, Or I'm Going To Die. It's Really That Simple, Right?

Give Me A Problem, I'll Give You A Solution. I Just Love Living. That's A Feeling You Can't Fake. I'm Glad Every Single Day. I Think That Even The Camera Can Feel That I'm A Happy Man.

The Execs Don't Care What Color You Are. They Care About How Much Money You Make. Hollywood Is Not Really Black Or White. It's Green.

The Keys To Life Are Running And Reading.

Sorry, I'm Allergic To Bullshit.

There’s Nothing You’ve Ever Been Successful At That You Didn’t Work On Every Day.

I Grew Up In The Church, Resurrection Baptist Church In Philadelphia, And My Grandmother Was That Grandmother At The Church, The One Always At The Church, Always Putting On The Events. It Was Deeply Instilled In Me That Every Action, Everything I Create, Everything I Say And Do In The World Is Inexorably Bound To The Lives Of Everybody I Come In Contact With - And It's My Responsibility To Put Things Into The World That Have A Positive Influence On Humanity.

The First Time That I Performed As An Actor Was The First Day On The Set Of 'the Fresh Prince Of Bel-air.'

You'd Be Surprised How Much You Don't Understand What Other People See Your Actions As; How Other People View The Things You Say And The Things That You Do. And A Lot Of Times Just Clarifying What Your Intentions Are With People Makes A Huge Difference.

There Is No Pain Worse Than Not Achieving A Dream When It Is Your Fault. If God Did Not Want You To Have It, That Is One Thing. But If You Do Not Get What You Desire Because You Are Lazy, There Is No Pain Worse Than That.

The Desire To Be A Good Father Is Really Innate. There Aren't A Lot Of Movies That Depict That Relationship Because Men, We Have To Pretend That We're Not That Emotional About It.

Don't Chase People. Be Yourself, Do Your Own Thing And Work Hard. The Right People - The Ones Who Really Belong In Your Life - Will Come To You. And Stay.

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

I Don't Necessarily Believe In Organized Religion.

Organized Religion

Tommy Lee Jones Is Hilarious. I Would Say, If You Look At The Body Of His Work, The Character He Is Most Like Is The One In 'the Fugitive.' That's How He Talks And Jokes. That Is The Type Of Energy He Has.

Remember, Don't Try To Build The Greatest Wall That's Ever Been Built. Focus On Laying A Single, Expertly-placed Brick. Then Keep Doing That, Every Day.

The Road To Success Is Through Commitment.

Road To Success

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.

It Feels Like God Visits Everywhere Else, But Lives In Africa.

Sitting In The Movie Theater Watching "star Wars," I've Never Had An Experience With Any Form Of Entertainment That Was Like That. It Was Almost Spiritual. I Couldn't Believe That Someone's Mind Created That. And, Right, It Felt Like George Lucas Had A Piano That Was Playing My Emotions, And He Could Go Ahead And Do Whatever He Wanted And Make Me Lean Forward If He Wanted, Or He Could Make Me Go Oh, Or He Could Make Me Hide My Face.

I Want To Be The Person That Is The First Person There And The Last Person To Leave. That's Who I Want To Be, Because I Think The Road To Success Is Through Commitment, And Through The Strength To Drive Through That Commitment When It Gets Hard. And It Is Going To Get Hard And You're Going To Want To Quit Sometimes, But It'll Be Colored By Who You Are, And More By Who You Want To Be.

I Would Have Absolutely Messed Up 'the Matrix'.

I Wake Up Every Morning Believing Today Is Going To Be Better Than Yesterday.

If You Learn How To Defeat That Person When You're Running. You Will Know How To Not Quit When Things Get Hard In Your Life.

The First Step Before Anybody Else In The World Believes It, Is That You Believe It.

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.

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!

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?

To Me, It's Science Fiction For Me To Do The Things I've Been Blessed To Do In This Industry.

Science Fiction

You Can't Win Enough, You Can't Have Enough Money, You Can't Succeed Enough. There Is Not Enough.

In My Mind, I've Always Been An A-list Hollywood Superstar. Y'all Just Didn't Know Yet.

Things Work In Spite Of Me Sometimes.

The Bible Talks About Your Spirit Being Immortal, That You Were Created For Existence Beyond Your Physical Body. Well, That's No Different From Scientology! I Don't Think That Because The Word Someone Uses For Spirit Is Thetan That The Definition Becomes Any Different.

Just As A Person, Just In My Life, The Way I Was Raised, My Grandmother Made It Very Clear That God Will Make A Way.

I Think My General Disposition On Life Is Finding What's Funny About It. When Something Happens, The First Thing In My Mind Is, "what's Funny About It?"

When You Look Around At The Six People That You Spend The Most Time With, That's Who You Are. I Think That In Making Those Decisions In Who You Are Going To Be Married To, Who Your Friends Are Going To Be, Those Are Really Huge, Critical, Life Decisions. Who Gets To Talk To You Everyday, Is Almost Like The Food That You Eat. It Is A Very Huge Critical Situation To Choose Who The People Are That You Are Spending Your Life With, Spending Your Time With And Who You Are Choosing To Give Your Love And Everything To.

I Consider Myself An Alchemist. An Alchemist Is Basically A Mystical Chemist, Right? And One Of The Great Feats That Alchemists Used To Do Is They Would Take Lead - Just Take A Chunk Of Lead - And They Could Turn Lead Into Gold.

Before 2010, I Had A Vision. I Saw A Family In My Mind That I Wanted To Have. And I Was Pushing And Driving Hard For My Picture, And Then I Realized Everyone Has Their Own Journey. I Have To Support What They Want To Do. I Have To Support The Vision That They Have For Themselves, Not My Vision. That Was Excruciating For Me.

Talent You Have Naturally. Skill Is Only Developed By Hours And Hours And Hours Of Beating On Your Craft.

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

When I Say I Am Going To Run Three Miles, I Run Five. With That Mentality, It Is Actually Difficult To Lose.

As A Child, I Watched 'dallas' And That Was My Vision For My Life For As Long As I Could Remember.

When You Create Art, The World Has To Wait.

Marvin Gaye Said There's A Song Inside Of Me And I Can't Get It Out. And I Know It's In There, And I Can Feel That It's In There, And I Can't Get It Out. There's So Much That I Want To Say, And I Haven't Been Able To Figure Out How To Say It In My Art. I Can Only Say It In Ham-fisted, Clumsy, Nonpoetic Ways, And I'm Trying To Figure Out How To Talk About Life And Talk About Love And Talk About Pain And Trials And Tribulation In An Artistic Form.

I Had To Focus And Create A Character In Bagger Vance, Not Just Do My 'will Smith' Thing And Get Paid.

You Might Be [outshining Me In Many Ways]. But If We Get On A Treadmill, There Are Two Things: You're Getting Off First Or I'm Going To Die. It's That Simple, Right?

I'm Motivated By Fear. Fear Of Fear. I Hate Being Scared To Do Something. And I Think What Developed In My Early Days Was The Attitude That I Started Attacking Things That I Was Scared Of.

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.

Black People Playing Tennis, Next White People Will Be Tap Dancing!

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.

Begin Each Day As If It Were On Purpose.

The Central Idea Of Love Is Not Even A Relationship Commitment, The First Thing Is A Personal Commitment To Be The Best Version Of Yourself With Or Without That Person That You're With. You Have To Every Single Day-mind, Body, And Spirit-wake Up With A Commitment To Be Better.

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.

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.

Adolf Hitler Was A Vile, Heinous, Vicious Killer Responsible For One Of The Greatest Acts Of Evil Committed On This Planet.

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.

I Can't Run Away When I'm Scared. I Always Have To Attack. That's How I Deal With Seemingly Difficult Things.

You Don’t Try To Build A Wall, You Don’t Set Out To Build A Wall. You Don’t Say ‘i’m Going To Build The Biggest, Baddest, Greatest Wall That’s Ever Been Built.’ You Don’t Start There… You Say ‘i’m Going To Lay This Brick As Perfectly As A Brick Can Be Laid.’ And You Do That Every Single Day And Soon You Have A Wall.

I'm Used To People Clapping At The End Of The Movie.

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.

I've Never Really Viewed Myself As Particularly Talented. I've Viewed Myself As Slightly Above Average In Talent.

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

The Separation Of Talent And Skill Is One Of The Largest Misconceptions In Modern Society. Talent Is Something You Born With, But Skill Can Only Be Attained Through Hours And Hours Of Hard Work Perfecting Your Talent As A Craft. Which Is Why Talent Will Fail You Without Skill.

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.

My God, My Higher Power. It's Mine And Mine Alone. I Create My Connection And I Decide How My Connection Is Going To Be.

Don't Let Failure Go To Your Heart, And Don't Let Success Go To Your Head.

A Sad Thing In Life Is That Sometimes You Meet Someone Who Means A Lot To You, Only To Find Out In The End It Was Never Bound To Be, And You Just Have To Let Go.

If Anybody Can Find Someone To Love Them And To Help Them Through This Difficult Thing That We Call Life, I Support That In Any Shape Or Form.

Marriage Equality

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.

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.

Don't Chase People. Be Yourself, Do Your Own Thing And Work Hard

If You're Not Willing To Work Hard, Let Someone Else Do It. I'd Rather Be With Someone Who Does A Horrible Job, But Gives 110% Than With Someone Who Does A Good Job And Gives 60%.

I Was Trying So Hard. I Would Memorize The Entire Script, Then I'd Be Lipping Everybody's Lines While They Were Talking. When I Watch Those Episodes, It's Disgusting. My Performances Were Horrible.

I Had A Hit Single On The Radio For 30 Days Before I Graduated From High School.

I Always Thought There Was Some Place I Was Going, That There Was Some Success Or Some Achievement Or Some Box-office Number That Was Going To Fill The Hole. And What I Realize Is That Life Is A Hole. It's A Process Of Continually Trying To Find And Reinvent Myself.

What Developed In My Early Days Was The Attitude To Start Attacking The Thing I Was Scared Of

Don’t Compare Yourself To Others. That’s When You Start To Lose Confidence In Yourself.

Confidence In Yourself

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.

Part Of Being An Actor Is Almost Self-hypnosis During Those Brief Moments When The Cameras Are Rolling. You Want To Actually Believe You're Chris Gardner Or Muhammad Ali.

The Guy Who's Willing To Hustle The Most Is Gonna Be The Guy That Just Gets That Loose Ball.

You Have To Make Every Group You Come In Contact With Better.

I Have Fun. I Enjoy My Life. And I Was Hardwired For A Deep Connection Between Service, God, And Happiness. You Kind Of Need All Of Those Things To Be In Play For One To Have The Others.

If You're Always Ready, You Don't Have To Get Ready.

I Know Who I Am, I Know What I Believe, That's All I Need To Know. From There, You Do What You Need To Do.

Correct Me If I'm Wrong, But Isn't Driving Around On A Bus And Having A Campfire Kind Of Adding To The Environment Problem?

Never Lie, Steal, Cheat, Or Drink. But If You Must Lie, Lie In The Arms Of The One You Love. If You Must Steal, Steal Away From Bad Company. If You Must Cheat, Cheat Death. And If You Must Drink, Drink In The Moments That Take Your Breath Away.

If You Want Somethin', Go Get It. Period.

You Can Cry, Ain't No Shame In It.

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...

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.

Anything Can Go Away. There's No Such Thing As Safety And Security. You Can Do Things That Give You The Illusion Of Safety And Security, But There's Really No Such Thing.

There Is Nothing Like Having To Change Your Physical Form To Put You In Contact With Every Weak Part Of Yourself, To Train Yourself In Discipline. Put Somebody On A Treadmill And I'll Tell You How Good They Are At Any Other Thing They Do In Life.

I Love Living. I Think That's Infectious, It's Something You Can't Fake.

The Things That Have Been Most Valuable To Me I Did Not Learn In School.

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.

On Learning To Swim: I'm Too Big To Have Some Woman Hold My Stomach And Say 'now Kick Your Feet.'

Boys Laugh At What They Put Girls Through - But They Won't Be Laughing When - They're Wiping Tears Off Their Daughters Face For The Same Reason.

The Way I Like To Measure Greatness Is... How Many People Can You Make Want To Be Better?

Your Words And Thoughts Have Physical Power.

Smiling Is The Best Way To Face Every Problem, To Crush Every Fear, To Hide Every Pain.

If You Stay Ready, You Don't Have To Get Ready.

I Refuse To Accept Anything Less Than 100% Of What I Can Achieve.

The Women Who Don't Seek Attention Are Usually The Women You Need To Be Giving Your Attention To.

Make A Choice Of What You Want, Who You Want To Be And How You're Going To Do It. The Universe Will Get Out Of Your Way.

Fear Is Not Real. The Only Place That Fear Can Exist Is In Our Thoughts Of The Future. It Is A Product Of Our Imagination, Causing Us To Fear Things That Do Not At Present And May Not Ever Exist. That Is Near Insanity Kitai. Do Not Misunderstand Me, Danger Is Very Real, But Fear Is A Choice.

Sometimes You Have To Forget What's Gone, Appreciate What Still Remains, And Look Forward To What's Coming Next.

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.

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