Will Smith
I'm looking to infect people with my positivity. I think I can start an epidemic.
Willard Christopher Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968), aka Will Smith, is an Academy Award nominated actor, multiple Grammy winning hip hop artist, and a former comedian from the United States. He is one of a small group of people who have enjoyed huge success in all the three major entertainment media in the United States: film, television, and the music industry.
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- It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.
- "Will Smith" article in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 edition), p. 406
- I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.
- "Will Smith" article in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 edition), p. 406
- Even Hitler didn't wake up going, "let me do the most evil thing I can do today." I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was "good." Stuff like that just needs reprogramming. ... I wake up every day full of hope, positive that every day is going to be better than yesterday. And I'm looking to infect people with my positivity. I think I can start an epidemic.
- As quoted in "Will Smith : My Work Ethic Will Make Me A Legend" by Siobhan Synnot in Daily Record (22 December 2007)
- This was reported in various new stories as if Smith had declared that "Adolf Hitler was essentially a good person."
- Smith responded to such misinterpretations in further statements:
- It is an awful and disgusting lie. It speaks to the dangerous power of an ignorant person with a pen. I am incensed and infuriated to have to respond to such ludicrous misinterpretation. ... Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.
- "Will Smith Explains Hitler Quote" by Karen Salkin in People (26 December 2007); Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League accepting Smith's clarifications stated: "If anything, this episode serves as a reminder of the power of words, and how words can be twisted by those with hate and bigotry in their hearts to suit their own world view."
Misattributed
- Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
- This quotation has no clear citation of original source, but has often been cited in many publications to Will Rogers.
