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.
KEVIN HARTFor 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.
More Kevin Hart Quotes
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When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.
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You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.’
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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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You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged.
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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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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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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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I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.
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I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me.
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I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.’
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At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.
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I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest.
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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’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 only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.
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People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.
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I love diversity.
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My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.
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The original ‘About Last Night’ was phenomenal.
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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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The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.
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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 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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I love women with attitude.
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Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‘Happy Feet’ to ‘Little Face.’
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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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