Kevin Hart Quotes

I would spend absolutely every last minute with my kids, telling them how much I love them and how much I would do for them.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

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.'

You've got to put yourself in positions to take away what can be said.

Genuinely love doing standup and I'm a comedian first, so for me what makes my standup special is the fact that I don't have to adapt or adjust. I am who I am. I appeal to everyone, hence in the movie doing a world tour.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they're not reachable.

I've been known to preach.

What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have many opportunities not only of talking with God in petitionary prayer, but also of listening to God, being attentive to God, as happens in contemplation.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

I feel like whatever you've done in your career, good or bad, it's nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

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 know about other people, but I love to work.

Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point.

You don't have to treat people differently. You may be living a different lifestyle, but the person living that different lifestyle still can relate to anybody and have the same amazing personality of the guy from North Philly.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I'm animated.

What women need to understand is that men don't communicate. It's not intentional or on purpose. We're just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

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. 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.

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

I think what happens in a religious life is that we have those experiences of affirmation and that one starts to live a Christian life or a Jewish life or a Muslim life or a Buddhist life, by affirming that affirmation each day. Each day you say 'Yes' to that Yes. So the life of being a Christian for example, is always a life of double affirmation, that you each day say 'Yes' to those counter-experiences of saying 'Yes', even when you're not experiencing them at that time, you're remaining loyal to that experience.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

The best feeling in the world is seeing the benefits and rewards of hard work.

All men hate the nagging.

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.

My drive is other people's 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.

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.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I'm not a good storm-outer... because I forget stuff.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

I'm pretty much an open book. I've pretty much talked about anything I'm going through onstage. Between interviews and curious fans, I've been asked everything. And I always give answers. I don't shy away from anything.

My road to success was a long road to success was a long road. You get out of something what you put into it. I put blood, sweat and tears into stand-up comedy and the entertainment realm in general. For me to just know be coming around is a blessing. It's a blessing and it's an honor. It makes me say I can get more and I can do more.

The kind of love that God has for us, I think, is of an infinite longing for union, and the kind of love that God wants us to have for him, I think, is of this also endless longing. Now in eros we lose ourselves. I think erotic love transforms us, but it does so only momentarily. It has to be embedded in something much longer, a much bigger narrative called marriage or durable relationship or something like that.

Just because your environment or living space changes doesn't mean that your attitude necessarily has to change.

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.

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.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.

I try to be funny and not ignorant.

If you're my bestfriend I shouldn't have to ask you to lie for me.

I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.