Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.
KEVIN HARTBecause I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‘Happy Feet’ to ‘Little Face.’
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It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.
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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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I don’t think comedy will ever die.
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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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I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.
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Some sarcasm is best told simply.
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People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‘Hey! All right, all right, all right!’
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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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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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Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.
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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 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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Being humble matters.
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I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself.
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People like to hear the word ‘love.’
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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’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.
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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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I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
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It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
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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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However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.
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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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I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest.
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Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
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