I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.
KEVIN HARTI’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
More Kevin Hart Quotes
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The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.
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When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.
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My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.
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I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.
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There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business,
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I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.
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Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.
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It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.
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So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.
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I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.
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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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My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.
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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, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.
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I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.
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