Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.
KEVIN HARTIn my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‘Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you.
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Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
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Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‘Happy Feet’ to ‘Little Face.’
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Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.
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My mom was very strict. She didn’t let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.
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I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.
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I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes.
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I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.
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You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.
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On ‘Think Like a Man,’ they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.
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I never looked back there, but she was like, ‘Will you all just shut up!’ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‘What are you doing?!’ I was like, ‘You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.’
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At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.
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There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us.
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You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.
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The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.
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My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t.
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No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset.
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I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.
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I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‘We’re black.
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I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.
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People like to hear the word ‘love.’
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As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.
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In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‘Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you.
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The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people.
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People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‘Hey! All right, all right, all right!’
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I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.
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I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
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