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.
KEVIN HARTI’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
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A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.
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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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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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These people are great because they just say, ‘I’ma do that,’ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.
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I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.
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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.
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I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.
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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.
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It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
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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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Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ’cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ’cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.
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You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged.
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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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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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Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film.
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