Quotes

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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.” Will Smith

“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

“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

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” George Santayana

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.” George Santayana

“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.” George Santayana

“Depression is rage spread thin.” George Santayana

“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.” George Santayana

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.” George Santayana

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.” George Santayana

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.” George Santayana

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.” George Santayana

“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” George Santayana

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.” George Santayana

“All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.” George Santayana

“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.” George Santayana

“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.” George Santayana

“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.” George Santayana

“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” George Santayana

“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.” George Santayana

“America is a young country with an old mentality.” George Santayana

“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.” George Santayana

“The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.” George Santayana