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"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
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"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
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"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
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"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."
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"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood."
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"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
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"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"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."
Movies
"In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet."
Hollywood
"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?"
Father
"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."
President
"On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'"
Feet
"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."
People
"I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid."
Character
"Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there."
Change
"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."
Party
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
Money
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