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.
KEVIN HARTIn 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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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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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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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 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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I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.
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Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares.
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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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You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.
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People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.
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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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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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I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.
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My drive is other people’s success.
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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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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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My mom was very strict. She didn’t let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.
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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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I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself.
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You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.’
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I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.
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A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.
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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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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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My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.
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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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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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