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 HARTMy mom was very strict. She didn’t let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.
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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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Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.
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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.
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The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.
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I’m a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I’ll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right.
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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.
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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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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’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‘Along Came Polly.’
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I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.
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I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.
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Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.
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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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My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.
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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’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
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Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‘Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.’
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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 people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.
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At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
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I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.
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A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.
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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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I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material.
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The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.
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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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