Top 300 Quotes & Sayings by Kevin Hart - Page 4

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. 'Hey, y'all, I'm cool with everybody.' That's my message.

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

Expect me to continue what I've been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

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.

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.

All men hate the nagging.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid's a hard worker, he's talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

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

'Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

The most exciting thing in the world to me is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that I'm successful doing it. Pursuing my dream and executing it is exciting to me.

I am in control of my career, and that's what so many actors don't take advantage of. You get to these successful points, and you continue to just work for other people. But, when you're your own brand and you're your own boss, the whole line of work changes. That's my biggest turn on.

The relationship we have with God is not the same over a life; sometimes, as with human relationships, it goes through bad patches and sometimes it becomes very intense. It is a terrifying thing to have a relationship with one's creator, to spend one's life so that one is trying to converge with one's creator seems an extraordinarily difficult and sublime thing. But at the same time it's extremely simple. One of the things which perpetually amazes me is that at any moment or any day, anyone who is alive can talk with the creator of the cosmos.

When I got into the business of entertainment, I did it for a reason. I didn't do it to not be successful. I did it to be successful. And to hopefully get to the highest level that I possibly could. Thus far, I'm achieving those goals. That doesn't make you stop. That doesn't make you complacent. It makes you want to do more.

I want to reach the status of becoming a mogul. And the only way you get there is by work.

The only time you should look back in life, is to see how far you have come.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to put the work in!!

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

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.

When you work hard and you treat people great, regardless of what it is that you're doing, naturally people want to help and do things.

The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

It all depends on what you're willing to invest time and effort in and put your mind to. That's what separates winners from losers. Winners are the ones who want the most out of their opportunities.

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

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

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

There seems to be something poetically that doesn't work or is limiting when you call God 'God' in a poem. When I tried to be honest with myself in my relationship with God, Christ is, on the one hand, completely dark, he's transcendent and unknown. On the other hand, he is completely imminent and completely knowable as Jesus. Our tradition speaks of him in both ways as transcendent but also as a lover who comes to us, and the two word 'Dark One' seem to me to contain both things, the transcendence and otherness of Christ, but also like a kind of dark lover who comes to us.

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

People May Hate You For Being Different and Not Living By Society's Standards,but Deep Down,They Wish They Had The Courage To Do The Same.

I don't look at obstacles as obstacles. I look at them as things that were put there for a reason. You can approach these things negatively or positively. I think those that approach it with a negative mindset only get a negative outcome.

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

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."

The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.

The day Rick Ross dives into the crowd, is the day we find out who his true fans are.

Ever argue with a female and, in the middle of the argument, you no longer feel safe because of her actions? She may start pacing back and forth real fast, breathing out her nose. You know what my girl do? When she get mad, she start talking in the third person. That's scary as hell because that's her way of telling me that from this point on, she is not responsible for none of her actions.

I shouldn't have to ask for your permission for me to put you in my lie!

The sound of the headboard, that's motivation.

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.

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

The people around me haven't changed. The people who have been in my life since the beginning are still in my life now. I think that has a lot to do with my staying grounded and humble despite the success I've achieved.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.

Relationships are like farting, If you push too hard things could get messy real fast.

I DON'T have EX's! I have Y's. Like 'Y the hell did I date you?!

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

Back in my heyday, when I was out on the streets - I'm engaged now, about to get married - but before that I was quite the sex symbol. My line was, "If I was taller, would I have a chance?".

Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small.

Winners are the ones who want the most out of their opportunities.

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

Divine love, agape, is self-sacrificing love, which sounds difficult, as it is, and not very attractive. If the best image we have of love is of a man who's been tortured and hung upon a cross to die an excruciating death, this is something that human beings find very, very hard to understand as love. But it is the highest Christian image of love.

My rule is to save myself first.

Life is too short to worry about what others say about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about.

There's a difference between who we love, who we settle for, and who we're meant for.

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.