Quote

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.

Will Smith

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Will Smith
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 25
Actor
Beatboxer
Businessperson
Character Actor
Composer
Director
Entrepreneur
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Fresh Prince
The Fresh Prince
Willard Carroll Smith Jr.
Less
Things
Likable
Likeable
Illuminate
Trained
Hide
Personality
Protect

More quotes by Will Smith

Image
The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.
Will Smith
Image
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?
Will Smith
Image
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
Image
Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith
Image
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.
Will Smith
Image
Your life will become better by making other lives better.
Will Smith
Image
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.
Will Smith
Image
You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
Will Smith
Image
Life is lived on the edge.
Will Smith
Image
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?
Will Smith
Image
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.
Will Smith
Image
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.
Will Smith
Image
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.
Will Smith
Image
My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'
Will Smith
Image
You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal.
Will Smith
Image
I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
Will Smith
Image
Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.
Will Smith
Image
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.
Will Smith
Image
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
Image
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.
Will Smith