Top 80 Kevin Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.”

— Kevin Smith

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2. “Failure is success training.”

— Kevin Smith

3. “Live a “Why not?” life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.”

— Kevin Smith

4. “Keep your focus on what YOU want to do – not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.”

— Kevin Smith

5. “People have been telling me I’m a failure and that I’m doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.”

— Kevin Smith

6. “In this life, if you don’t celebrate yourself, nobody will.”

— Kevin Smith

7. “People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.”

— Kevin Smith

8. “Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.”

— Kevin Smith

9. “Don’t go where the puck’s been; go where it’s gonna be.”

— Kevin Smith

10. “More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.”

— Kevin Smith

11. “Is man indeed a walrus at heart?”

— Kevin Smith

12. “Sometimes the path you’re on is not as important as the direction you’re heading.”

— Kevin Smith

13. “Everybody’s got one killer story. It doesn’t take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.”

— Kevin Smith

14. “There’s a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.”

— Kevin Smith

15. “I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can’t generate. Life becomes stagnant.”

— Kevin Smith

16. “I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.”

— Kevin Smith

17. “Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.”

— Kevin Smith

18. “Don’t let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.”

— Kevin Smith

19. “All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what’s there.”

— Kevin Smith

20. “I’m not even supposed to be here today.”

— Kevin Smith

21. “It’s silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.”

— Kevin Smith

22. “In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.”

— Kevin Smith

23. “I know you’re supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don’t do the other stuff, but weed is good.”

— Kevin Smith

24. “One man’s frankness is another man’s vulgarity.”

— Kevin Smith

25. “There’s something to be said for failing. It’s not the failure you feel, it’s the failure that people project when something disappoints. You’re back to ground zero, where there’s no expectations, and that’s where I like to be.”

— Kevin Smith

26. “Storytelling is my currency. It’s my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.”

— Kevin Smith

27. “It’s like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you’ve won.”

— Kevin Smith

28. “In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards.”

— Kevin Smith

29. “If you’re lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.”

— Kevin Smith

30. “With what you don’t know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.”

— Kevin Smith

31. “BRODIE: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.”

— Kevin Smith

32. “Life is also, as George Carlin taught us, a zero-sum game. We all lose in the end. We all die screaming. If that’s the case, we might as well make for ourselves a paradise in this world. Make yourself happy and comfortable as often as you can, because sooner or later, the infinite hands you a bill for all these goods and services. What.”

— Kevin Smith

33. “I’m always cribbing from real life. I’m not a very creative filmmaker.”

— Kevin Smith

34. “The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.”

— Kevin Smith

35. “Generally, I wake up, honestly it’s creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.”

— Kevin Smith

36. “It takes nothing to encourage an artist.”

— Kevin Smith

37. “I didn’t get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.”

— Kevin Smith

38. “If you’re alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.”

— Kevin Smith

39. “If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.”

— Kevin Smith

40. “Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don’t hurt anybody, what’s it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn’t made TUSK? If I’d let it die as a podcast? I wouldn’t have three other movies I’m now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams.”

— Kevin Smith

41. “Happiness can’t be bottled. It can’t be smoked, swallowed, shot or ejaculated. And there is no end game: you never cross the finish line and are suddenly happy. Even when all your wildest dreams come true, you still pursue happiness.”

— Kevin Smith

42. “Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?”

— Kevin Smith

43. “Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.”

— Kevin Smith

44. “I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.”

— Kevin Smith

45. “You know, there’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don’t all bring you lasagna at work. Most of ’em just cheat on you.”

— Kevin Smith

46. “I feel like if you’re in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.”

— Kevin Smith

47. “This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It’s a time to scream to the clouds that we’re here and we’ve got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?”

— Kevin Smith

48. “Dudes know I’m not a threat. Chicks know I’m not a threat.”

— Kevin Smith

49. “I just love movies, so suddenly, you’re political about movies, and that’s dark. It’s just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.”

— Kevin Smith

50. “T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it’s like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.”

— Kevin Smith