I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‘We’re black.
KEVIN HARTI don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.
More Kevin Hart Quotes
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The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.
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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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You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.’
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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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No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‘Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.’
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If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.
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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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Best Man Holiday’ was a very successful film.
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I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.
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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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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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I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.
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As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.
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I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.
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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 read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‘Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.’ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.
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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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I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.
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People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.
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I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.
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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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I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.
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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 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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Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.
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I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.
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