Kevin Darnell Hart is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and producer. Hart began his career by winning several amateur comedy competitions at clubs throughout New England, culminating in his first real break in 2001 when he was cast by Judd Apatow for a recurring role on the TV series Undeclared. Since then, Hart has starred in numerous films, and also released a number of comedy albums. In 2017, Hart launched the Laugh Out Loud Network, a subscription video streaming service in partnership with Lionsgate.
Some of the best quotes from Kevin Hart are listed below.
- “A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.” – Kevin Hart
- “A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.” – Kevin Hart
- “Appreciate hard work and the process of hard work. Because after that’s over and you get the rewards of success, you look back on those moments and you respect those moments the best. You have no character, you have no place to come from.” – Kevin Hart
- “At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.” – Kevin Hart
- “Be loyal to those who help you grow. You got a team, you keep your team together, you run as a unit. You got a team of people, it means they believed in you, they bought into your dream. That means they invested into you, they invested time, energy and effort. In return, you gotta invest your vision and promise them that we’re all going to win together.” – Kevin Hart
- “Being humble matters.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.” – Kevin Hart
- “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. 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.” – Kevin Hart
- “Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.” – Kevin Hart
- “Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.” – Kevin Hart
- “Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.” – Kevin Hart
- “How the hell do you wake up dead?” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “I am who I am today because of my mother.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.” – Kevin Hart
- “I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.” – Kevin Hart
- “I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.” – Kevin Hart
- “I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.” – Kevin Hart
- “I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.” – Kevin Hart
- “I have good laugh every day. I enjoy life. I’m surrounded by love and positivity.” – Kevin Hart
- “I never do anything that I don’t want to do.” – Kevin Hart
- “I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.” – Kevin Hart
- “I think if you get kicked in the face you deserved it because that means that you watched the foot come to your face.” – Kevin Hart
- “I want to reach the status of becoming a mogul. And the only way you get there is by work.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “I’m not going to stop having problems.” – Kevin Hart
- “If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you’re really not ready to be successful.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “Just because your environment or living space changes doesn’t mean that your attitude necessarily has to change.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “Life is too short to worry about what others say about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about.” – Kevin Hart
- “My drive is other people’s success.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “My goal is to make everyone and anyone a fan.” – Kevin Hart
- “My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax, in any way shape or form.” – Kevin Hart
- “My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “My rule is to save myself first.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.’” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “So I’m at the office, I tell this guy…Pass me the stapler, but when you pass it, make sure staples are in it, because if it isn’t, I can’t staple anythin’.” – Kevin Hart
- “Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.” – Kevin Hart
- “Sometimes when you hear so much and everybody is praising you, you can get lost in that. You can start thinking that you are on a higher pedestal than everyone else. So I try to stay level headed, humble and the best way to do that is to not really acknowledge it that much. I just keep grinding and working as hard as I can. I also set my goals higher so that I don’t have time to be content with my place in life and in my career.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “The beauty of me is I’m always going to ask. I’ll never not ask.” – Kevin Hart
- “The best feeling in the world is seeing the benefits and rewards of hard work.” – Kevin Hart
- “The best tip I could tell you is to be active. So many people talk about what they want to do and they just love words. Put actions behind your words. Don’t be a talker, be a doer.” – Kevin Hart
- “The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.” – Kevin Hart
- “The only time you should look back in life is to see how far you have come.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “This younger generation that’s around, that’s tweeting, Facebook-ing and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.” – Kevin Hart
- “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.” – Kevin Hart
- “You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.” – Kevin Hart
