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

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

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

" 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 always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation. "

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

" I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance. "

" 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. "

" Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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%. "

" 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. "

" When you create art, the world has to wait. "

" 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? "

Doing The Right Thing

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

" 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. "

" I don't necessarily believe in organized religion. "

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

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

" I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "