Will Smith

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

My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed.

My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

Life is lived on the edge.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

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

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.