Will Smith
Will Smith
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith, Jr. is an American actor, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth25 September 1968
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary," because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood.
I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.
Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.
Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.