Latest Will Smith Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Trying, Acting

  Source: www.oprah.com

• 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.

  Will Smith

  People, Action, Intention

  Source: www.oprah.com

• 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.

  Will Smith

  Two, Giving, Needs

• I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, People, Proud

• Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.

  Will Smith

  Mask, Hopes And Fears, Connected

• I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

  Will Smith

  Mind, Sometimes, Dangerous

• Things work in spite of me sometimes.

  Will Smith

  Sometimes, Spite

• I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie.

  Will Smith

  People, Used, Ends

• For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

  Will Smith

  Purpose, Stories, Patterns

• 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.

  Will Smith

  Character, Creating, People

• 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.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Self, People

• I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Becoming, World

• 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.

  Will Smith

  Character, Way, Stories

• 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.

  Will Smith

  Grandmother, Way, Made

• 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.

  Will Smith

  Grandmother, Giving, Gold

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be.

  Will Smith

  Real, Believe, Patterns

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Will Smith

  Alchemist, Gold, Used

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.

  Will Smith

  Two, Magic, Four

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Will Smith

  Vision, Way, Figures

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Will Smith

  Running, Artist, Careers

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Will Smith

  Vision, Doe, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Ideas, Hunger

  Source: www.pbs.org

• You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal.

  Will Smith

  Truthful, Situation, Universal

  Source: www.pbs.org

• To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

  Will Smith

  Blessed, Fiction, Science Fiction

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

  Will Smith

  People, Trying, Emotion

  Source: www.pbs.org