Top 180 Will Smith Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren’t a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we’re not that emotional about it.”

— Will Smith

152. “My grandmother used to always say, ‘People need to be worth something.’”

— Will Smith

153. “I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there’s no other life forms that exist out there.”

— Will Smith

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

— Will Smith

155. “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.”

— Will Smith

156. “I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.”

— Will Smith

157. “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.”

— Will Smith

158. “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?”

— Will Smith

159. “Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.”

— Will Smith

160. “I believe that my connection to my higher power, is separate from everybody else’s. I don’t believe that the Muslims have all the answers and I don’t believe the Christians or the Jews have all the answers.”

— Will Smith

161. “I’ve always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention.”

— Will Smith

162. “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.”

— Will Smith

163. “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.”

— Will Smith

164. “It’s great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he’s black.”

— Will Smith

165. “I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.”

— Will Smith

166. “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

167. “I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.”

— Will Smith

168. “One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.”

— Will Smith

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

— Will Smith

170. “Just because the kid’s cute, doesn’t mean you’re not the father.”

— Will Smith

171. “I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to.”

— Will Smith

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

— Will Smith

173. “On learning to swim: I’m too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say ‘Now kick your feet.’”

— Will Smith

174. “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

175. “Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.”

— Will Smith

176. “The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.’”

— Will Smith

177. “Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don’t leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.”

— Will Smith

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

— Will Smith

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

— Will Smith

180. “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.”

— Will Smith

181. “I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.”

— Will Smith

182. “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.”

— Will Smith

183. “In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.”

— Will Smith

184. “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.”

— Will Smith

185. “The big thing I tell my kids is you have to control how you label things. It’s very important to me they understand the power they have to create the lives that they want.”

— Will Smith

186. “I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy’s “Perfect Day” on tv.”

— Will Smith

187. “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.”

— Will Smith

188. “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.”

— Will Smith

189. “I’ve always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.”

— Will Smith