Will Smith Life Story

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00:10 We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were going to be.

00:17 Because we were becoming something greater.

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00:28 When I was 15 years old, my first girlfriend cheated on me.

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00:40 And I remember making a decision that nobody would ever cheat on me again.

00:46 And the way I was going to do that is by being the biggest actor on earth.

00:51 It's very simple. This is what I believe and I'm willing to die for it. Period.

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01:05 My biggest dream coming up was I wanted to hear one of my records on the radio.

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01:18 I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear.

01:24 I hate being scared to do something.

01:28 And I started developing the habit of attacking things that I was scared of.

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01:46 To me, violence begets violence.

01:50 But with that story, I felt the only way I could make that movie is it had to be a love story, not a vengeance story.

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02:27 You can't be scared to die for the truth.

02:32 The truth is the only thing that's ever going to be constant.

02:36 And you can't fear what might happen to you if you were to tell the truth.

02:42 It's that simple.

02:43 I know who I am and I know what I believe.

02:45 I know who I am, I know what I believe.

02:46 And that's all I need to know.

02:47 And that's all I need to know.

02:48 So from there, you do what you need to do.

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