I am capable of holding the quote-unquote ‘title’ of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.
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More Kevin Hart Quotes
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When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.
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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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Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‘Happy Feet’ to ‘Little Face.’
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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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Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.
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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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At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
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All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.
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I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
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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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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.
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I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.
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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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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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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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The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people.
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My drive is other people’s success.
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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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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 business acumen is definitely growing.
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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.
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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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There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us.
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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’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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