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" 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. "

Will Smith

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Comedy

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

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" 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 would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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Stand

" 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

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Doing The Right Thing

Father