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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More Kevin Hart Quotes
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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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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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The original ‘About Last Night’ was phenomenal.
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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 you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.
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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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You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.
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I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.
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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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An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.
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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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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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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 didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.
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I’ve done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for ‘Let Me Explain,’ I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out – ‘Ride Along,’ ‘Grudge Match,’ ‘About Last Night,’ ‘Think Like a Man Too’ – are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.
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