'Just stay ready.' Stay in shape and then you don't have to rush to train before the movie starts. My father used to say all the time, 'Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.' So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous, insane, obsessiveness for practice and preparation. I knew that I was saying it with my left hand every time so in order for them to make the edit, I would do it with my left hand every time. But I had my blocking I knew my left leg was forward. If he decides he wants to get up and walk, he'll get up and walk. I started watching him and you know how kids are. I'm getting excited but to me, that is the essence of the power of this film.' This country's the only place that Chris Gardner could exist. That's designed into the fiber of this country. To me - Barack Obama called it the audacity of hope.

It's just a matter of time before you get what you're designing. You have got to believe that it's already a done deal. You can't do that if there's a possibility this might not work out. The next morning, he woke up, he bathed his son in the sink and he went to work. Chris Gardner laid down in a bathroom with his only child, seemingly the ultimate parental failure. I absolutely, positively believe I could fly the space shuttle. But put me on a lie detector test right now and I absolutely, positively believe that I could be the President of the United States. Now, there were probably political experts that laughed. Smith continued, 'I've always called it naiveté with me that a few years ago I said that I honestly, truly believed that I could be the President of the United States.

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