I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great?
KEVIN HARTEvery relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.
More Kevin Hart Quotes
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An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.
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Soul Plane’ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.
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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.
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If you look at me close enough, there’s a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don’t know if it’s my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.
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Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.
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I’m happy about working; I’m happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh.
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I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.
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I 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.
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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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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 stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.
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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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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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You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.
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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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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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However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.
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When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.
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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 never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.
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Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares.
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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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I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.
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I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‘Along Came Polly.’
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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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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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