“The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.”

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‘Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you.

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.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

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.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‘Hey! All right, all right, all right!’

I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

I love diversity.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies.

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We’re small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We’re not a pushover.

I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.