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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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There's No Easy Way

Will Smith

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

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.

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.

You Have To Create Something In A Way That Has Direction, That It Has Vision, And Then Your Partner Will Take It And Figure Out Whatever Their Expertise Is.

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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've Always Been The Goofy Kid. Growing Up, I Always Enjoyed The Comedic Aspect Of Relating To Women. Even On Camera, It Was Always The Funny Take On It.

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

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

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Be Magic Choose And Believe That You Can Do Anything You Set Your Mind To Believe. We Are Who We Choose 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.

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

Human Beings Are Not Creatures Of Logic; We Are Creatures Of Emotion. And We Do Not Care What's True. We Care How It Feels.

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I Want To Represent Possibilities. I Want To Represent Magic, Right, That You're In A Universe, And Two Plus Two Equals Four.

I've Always Been A Jokester. The Things I Got In Trouble For, When I Was Little, Was Always About Making A Joke Or Setting Up A Prank Or Being Silly When I Should Be Paying Attention.

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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.

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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.

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I Believe You Need To Be Educated About What You Want To Do In Life, But I Don't Believe You Actually Need College To Get You There.

It's Great To Be Black In Hollywood. When A Black Actor Does Something, It Seems New And Different Just By Virtue Of The Fact That He's Black.

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.

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.

I Love Being Black In America, And Especially Being Black In Hollywood.

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

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

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.

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.

I Would Have Absolutely Messed Up 'the Matrix'.

I So Connected To Symbolically Being Able To Turn Lead Into Gold. My Grandmother Used To Say, "life Give You A Lemon, You Go Ahead And Make Lemonade." To Me, That's Alchemy.

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

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

I Read A Bruce Lee Quote That Shifted How I'm Trying To Live My Life Right Now. He Said, "some Targets Are Only Meant To Be Aimed At." Right? And I Took That To Mean A Shift For Myself From Goal Orientation To Path Orientation.

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.

Things Work In Spite Of Me Sometimes.

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

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?"

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 Think For Me, As A Parent, Once My Children Are Thoroughly Informed, They Can Make The Decisions That They Want To Make. The Only Thing That I Demand Is A Complete Comprehension [of The Information].

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%.

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

Never Underestimate The Pain Of A Person, Because In All Honesty, Everyone Is Struggling. Some People Are Better At Hiding It Than Others.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The Keys To Life Are Running And Reading.

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

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

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.

When You're Running And You Are There, There's A Little Person That Talks To You And That Little Person Says “oh, I'm Tired”, “my Lounge's About To Pop”, “i'm So Hurt”, “i'm So Tired”, “there's No Way I Can Possibly Continue”. And You Wanna Quit. Right? That Person, If You Learn How To Defeat That Person When You're Running You Will Learn How To Not Quit When Things Get Hard In Your Life.

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

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

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

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?

Begin Each Day As If It Were On Purpose.

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?

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

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.

Greatness Exists In All Of Us.

Danger Is Very Real But Fear Is A Choice.

Face Your Fears

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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