Top 135 Kevin Hart Quotes

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‘I’ma do that,’ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

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.

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.

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.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‘Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.’

Men are like lions. We hunt.

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

The original ‘About Last Night’ was phenomenal.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

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

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.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‘Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.’

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.

I’m not Russell Crowe. I’m not going to do a period piece.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

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.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

I just want to be a great example to younger kids.

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

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

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.

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.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you’ve got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky’s the limit.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

My mom was very strict. She didn’t let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I’m saying, and I track it.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‘Hey! All right, all right, all right!’

My drive is other people’s success.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

‘Soul Plane’ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

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.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

People like to hear the word ‘love.’

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

I love women with attitude.

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

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

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.

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 love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.

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.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

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 learned from the guys before me – Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

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.

Really, I don’t like roller coasters.

My Twitter reflects what’s going on with me in my life.