Stand-up Is My Baby.
I Got The Stern End Of The Stick. It Was Kind Of That Iron Fist. I Am Who I Am Today Because Of My Mother.
Some People Love So Hard That They Can't Control Those Emotions When They're At Their Deepest Point.
There's No Reason Why I Can't Be A Mogul. When I Step Into A Room And I'm There To Have A Conversation, If It Pertains To Business, I Want To Be Respected As A Guy Who Knows What He's Talking About. And That, To Me, Holds More Weight Than Anything Else.
Oh, My Mama Was Awesome. Very Strict, Overreligious, Loved The Lord, Loved Rules. But She Had To Be That Way Because Of Where We Were Growing Up, The Neighborhood I Was From.
'Leading Man' Just Means People Want To See You And Assume That You Can Hold A Film, Carry A Movie.
When You're Doing A Film And The Majority Of The Film Is Cast Black, For Me, It's Most Important To Get People To View Those Movies As Just Movies, As Just Good Movies. 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.
Working With A Guy Like Ice Cube On 'Ride Along,' You Learn So Much. He's A Guy Who Produces, Writes, And Directs, So You Watch And Learn And Ask Questions. As You Go, You Learn And Figure Out What You Should And Shouldn't Do. I Do Nothing But Soak Up Information.
It's A Well-known Fact That Tall People Are Evil.
I Don't Need Therapy. I'm Not Going To See A Therapist; Comedy Acts As My Therapy. I Put My Problems Out There. I Talk About Them. I Talk About Everything Before Anybody Has A Chance.
Being Humble Matters.
My Goal Is To Make Everyone And Anyone A Kevin Hart Fan.
Success Isn't Supposed To Happen, No Matter How Hard You Work. There's No Guarantee You're Going To Succeed. There's Nothing Set In Stone.
The Day You Stop Doing The Small Things Is The Day You Think You're Above Everybody Else.
Stand-up Can Take You In So Many Different Places, Man. 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.
A Reputation As A Hard Worker Is A Good Reputation To Have.
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.
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.
Laughter Heals All Wounds, And That's One Thing That Everybody Shares. No Matter What You're Going Through, It Makes You Forget About Your Problems. I Think The World Should Keep Laughing.
The Two Things In The World We All Share In This World Are Laughter And Pain. We've All Got Problems. The Levels Of Those Problems Vary, But We've All Got Problems. When You Can Take Things That Are Painful And Make Them Funny, That's A Gift - To You And Your Audience.
I Am Who I Am Today Because Of My Mother.
I Am An Angel. I Was Sent Here From God To Heal.
My Main Goal Is To Be A Self-made Man And Have Control Over What's Mine.
Is Everything Funny? For Me, Yes. There's A Positive To Every Negative. Even My Divorce? For Me, Yes. If You Go Back And Look At It, Why It Happened Or How It Happened, There's Something In There That'll Make You Laugh.
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.'
A Lot Of Blood, Sweat, And Tears Have Gone Into This Career Of Mine.
Almost Anything Can Be Funny If Said The Right Way - But It Has To Be Said The Right Way.
Because I'm Small, I've Been Called Things From 'Happy Feet' To 'Little Face.'
I'm A Whopping 5 Foot 4 Inches Tall. I'm Not Going To Get Any Taller.
The Quote-unquote 'Description' Of A Leading Man Was Once Your Tall, Handsome Man With The Build Of Whatever, Almost A Trophy To Some Degree. I Think Now It's About Making A Leading Man What You Want A Leading Man To Be. In This Day, You Can't Deny Talent. You Look At Jonah Hill, You Look At Zach Galifianakis, You Look At Myself.
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.
I'm Not Going To Stop Having Problems.
Men And Women Do Think Differently, And Frankly, We Don't Understand Each Other. Not At All! But That's What Makes Relationships So Amazing.
My Experiences In Life Are Getting Bigger And Better. The More Stuff I Do, The More Stuff I Talk About - Having Kids, Traveling, Going Through Relationship Problems, Dealing With Things In My Own Family. All That Stuff Builds Character.
The Thing About Impressing Your Girlfriend Is That When You Do Something Like A Private Island In Fiji, It's All Downhill From That Point.
I Understand That Being Able To Appeal To The Public And Having An Amazing Sense Of Humour Is Not Something That Comes Easy. It's Definitely A Gift And For Which I'm Thankful.
I Think If Someone Gets Kicked In The Face It Is Their Fault - They Watched The Foot Come Towards Their Face.
At The End Of The Day, I Want To Be Part Of The Same Conversation As Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby And Richard Pryor.
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.
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.
I Love Making People Laugh. And I Love Laughing.
I Know A Dramatic Role Is Going To Happen, But You Just Got To Be Patient, You Know? It's Going To Happen When It's Supposed To Happen. I'm Not Rushing It. I'm Not Trying To Make It Happen Tomorrow.
I Don't Want Enemies. I Want Friends, And I Want Them In All Shapes, Sizes, And Colors, And Loving Whoever They Want To.
Hollywood Has A Way Of Making Everything Seem Like An Overnight Success.
This Younger Generation That's Around, That's Tweeting, Facebooking And Vine-ing, The Fans Appreciate That Because They Feel Like They Can Get To You.
People Don't Want To Hear About Me Having Leather Walls Or Gold Toilets.
If You Look At Me Close Enough, There's A Small Resemblance To A Chicken Nugget. I Don't Know If It's My Skin Texture Or My Hair, But The Resemblance Is Definitely There.
I Performed In A Bowling Alley Before While People Were Still Bowling. Cut The Check, And I Will Perform Anywhere.
An Unemployed Court Jester Is Nobody's Fool.
The Funny Thing Is, All My Friends Are Short. I Wasn't Aware Of Tall People Till I Got To High School. I Didn't Know They Existed. I Was Sheltered.