Will Smith Quotes

As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.

My dad was an electrical engineer.

It's difficult to say what I would be doing if I wasn't a footballer, but I probably would have sold coal like my father. Studying was never my thing, and I would surely have ended up working with my dad.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

When I was a kid, I worked as a clerk at my parent's motel. From when I was eight or nine, I rented rooms, helped with laundry, folding tons of towels. And then I also worked at my dad's gas station more as a young adult and as an adult.

My father worked in a tyre factory. My mother worked as a teacher.

Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods, Elijah Kent, Weldon Staton - carved out successful engineering careers at Langley.

My dad insisted I got a trade. He had a plumbing business. So you are looking at a qualified heating engineer.

Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school.

A lot of things come down to your roots and how you're brought up.

To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.

The way it worked was my mom came from a musical family, and my dad didn't - he was a pathologist.

In the nicest possible way, my first job was at Sainsbury's - my mum worked there, and I was a bag packer.

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.

When I went to school, it was to be an electrical engineer. I graduated with a degree in industrial management and worked in trucking for a couple of years. Then I decided that I was bored with the trucking industry and that I would go back to graduate school.

I'm the only actor in the family. My little brother does Parkour. My sister married a writer, so I think that's what sparked my interest in acting.

I grew up in a conservative household, my parents were small business owners, so it really just was kind of part of who we were.

My family was extremely progressive. My parents had a love marriage, but they separated when I was two years old. I moved to Delhi with my mom, who got involved with the family business.

I was 18 and had taken A-levels in Woking where I grew up. But I didn't want to go to university so left sixth-form college. My father was in the building industry and he found me a job stripping concrete panels off buildings. It was dangerous work on high scaffolds, sometimes 12 hours a day, Monday to Friday, and often weekends too.

I'm an engineer by training.

My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

My mother was sort of mildly religious, but the rest of us, you know, we didn't really have it forced on us.