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I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.
Will Smith
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Will Smith
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 25
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Willard Carroll Smith Jr.
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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.
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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.
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When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.
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I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.
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On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'
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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.
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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.
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The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.
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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.
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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.
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If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.
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I love you and I'm here for you.
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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.
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I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.
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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.
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Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.
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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.
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