Will Smith Quotes

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

You can’t fool people into loving you.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

Seeing is not always believing.

Do you feel better?” I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me. “Yes,” he said. He was still a terrible liar. “Good,” I said. I was still a fantastic one.

People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence between what's within that person and the words and actions I'm viewing and hearing externally?" Children ask that about their parents; students ask it about their teachers; parishioners ask it about their pastors and priests; employees ask it about their bosses; and in a democracy, citizens ask it about their political leaders.

The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, "Unless you're in the room, you don't know if it's true." We were talking about gossip.

I think that, like anything, people take their image and what they want somebody else to be and then people just run with it. And when you really know the person and really love the person, you recognize that that person is nothing like that.

Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

Very few of us are what we seem.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.