Цитаты из книги Will. Вілл

Создание музыки было для меня как жизнь в симпатичном районе, а актерство- как путешествие через бескрайнюю Вселенную. В качестве актера я мог оказаться кем угодно, отправиться куда угодно, делать что угодно. 

Alfonso: What's dad's biggest fear?

Jaden: His biggest fear is having any fears.

But bravery does not mean the absence of fear. Bravery is learning to continue forward even when you're terrified. Jada and I agreed that we would ride together for this lifetime, no matter what.

Our time apart had helped us both to discover the power of loving in freedom. We are simultaneously one hundred percent bound together, and one hundred percent free. We agreed that we were both imperfect people, doing our best to figure out how to be in this world joyfully.

What we needed from each other was unconditional love and support-not judgment, not punishment, but total, unbending devotion to each other's growth and well-being.

Death has a way of transforming the mundane into the magical.

Hellos and goodbyes should be that way in our everyday lives because the reality is tomorrow is not promised. I began to embrace every hello with gratitude and to never take a goodbye for granted. The level of devoted focus, honesty, and compassion that Daddio and I shared became the aspirational model for love in my life.

Thank God we're judged by our actions, not by our trauma-driven, inner outbursts.

Minimizing my talking became my practice for maximizing my awareness, I had always seen the world as my battlefield; I now understood that the true combat zone was my mind.

There is an energy that's at work while you're asleep-the energy that fires the sun, that moves the ocean, that beats your heart. You don't have to do everything; in fact, most of the things that get done, you didn't have anything to do with them. Actually, it's a great thing that you were asleep, because if you'd been awake, you would probably have messed it up.

"Surrender" to me no longer meant defeat--it was now an equally powerful tool of manifestation. Losing could be equal to winning in terms of my growth and development.

"Look, you are Will Effin' Smith. You are one of the richest, most beloved people on earth. If you can't have the life that you want, the rest of us are screwed."

Memory is not a flawless recording of what actually happened. It's not a video of your experience. It's not even a photograph. It is your psychological, artistic rendering. It is more like an abstract impressionist painting of what happened than it is a pure, unfiltered depiction. And it's not fixed -the painting morphs, it fades or expands over time.

Sometimes you add colors to a memory that weren't there a year ago, or five years ago, or even collapse multiple memories and paint them into one.

And it dawned on me, If I don't want to be with me, why the fuck would anybody else wanna be with me?

and I'd learned a long time ago, I might break my promise to you, but I'll never break my promise to me.

It may be the most important question that we as humans ever ask each other. Does it matter to you how I feel?

In the case of Willow, when she was about eight years old, she got really into singing. This is not unusual for an eight-year-old girl. Eight-year-old girls all over the world love to sing and dream about singing onstage.

The only difference was that most dads would put her in the church choir, or maybe sign her up for a voice lesson or two.

I'm not that kind of dad.

I finally had it- my own version of Dallas. The picture was complete, and it was perfect. I had built a family empire this was beyond anything I'd ever dreamed.

And then, he got me: he said, "If you don't choose me to direct this film, please don't choose an American filmmaker, because Americans don't understand the beauty of the American dream.”

Gabriele was in.