I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
KEVIN HARTI got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.
More Kevin Hart Quotes
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At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.
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For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.
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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.
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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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People like to hear the word ‘love.’
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I don’t write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
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My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.
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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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You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.
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No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.
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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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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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When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.
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Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.
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This younger generation that’s around, that’s tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.
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My show ‘The Big House’ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‘The Big House.’ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‘Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.’ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.
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Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
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I am capable of holding the quote-unquote ‘title’ of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.
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I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself.
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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.
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I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
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You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.
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I don’t think comedy will ever die.
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Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‘Happy Feet’ to ‘Little Face.’
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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 had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes.
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