I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

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.

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.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

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.

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?

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

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.

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.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

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.

I want the world to be better because I was here.

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.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

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.

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've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.

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%.

Life is lived on the edge.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

You can’t win the war against the world if you can’t win the war against your own mind.

At the center of bringing any dream into fruition is self-discipline.

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.

It's really beautiful. It feels like God visits everywhere else but lives in Africa.

Throughout life people will make you mad disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

Remember dont try to build the greatest wall thats ever been built. Focus on laying a single expertly placed brick. Then keep doing that every day.

I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.

Dont chase people. Be yourself do your own thing and work hard.

Life is not the amount of breaths you take its the moments that take your breath away.

Theres a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.

Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make peoples lives brighter. You just shake somebodys hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.

Too many people spend money they havent earned to buy things they dont want to impress people they dont like.

The first step is you have to say that you can