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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.

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The People Around Me

Kevin Hart

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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.

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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.

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The Beauty Of Me Being On Stage Is I Have A Voice.

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.

Comedy Central Was A Great Network, But 'chappelle's Show' Took It To A Completely Different Level. Other Shows Got Bigger Because So Many Viewers Were Watching The 'chappelle' Reruns. For Bet, The 'real Husbands Of Hollywood' Has That Same Potential.

I'm Not Going To Stop Having Problems.

My Baby Is Weird Man... When He Get Mad, He Gets In The Oven.

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.

Because I'm Small, I've Been Called Things From 'happy Feet' To 'little Face.'

When You're Coming Up With New Material, It's Not Always Gonna Be Good. The Only Way To Learn Is For It Not To Get A Laugh, So You Can Adjust It And Come Back The Next Day To See If It's Working Right. Next Time, You Might Get A Different Laugh. You're Constantly Rebuilding.

I Only Wanna Go Up The Steps Toward A Different Level Of Stardom. The Bet Awards Was One Of Those Steps, The Vmas Was Another Huge Step. And The Next Step, Eventually, Hopefully, Would Be The Oscars.

'soul Plane' Put Me In A Position To Succeed. I'm Glad I Had The Opportunity To Be The Lead Man.

People Like To Hear The Word 'love.'

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.

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. That's What I Mean When I Say Branding And Developing Yourself, As A Business.

If You Give Up At The First Sign Of Struggle, You're Really Not Ready To Be Successful.

I Wanna Produce, Write, And Direct My Own Projects, And Eventually Fund Them. I Wanna Be A Mogul.

My Goals Are So High.

There Was One Incident At A Movie Theater Where My Girl Got Mad At These Guys Who Were Talking Behind Us. I Never Looked Back There, But She Was Like, 'will You All Just Shut Up!' And I Just Got Up And Moved Three Rows In Front. She Was Like, 'what Are You Doing?!' I Was Like, 'you Better Get Up Here! I Don't Play The Fighting Games.'

I Don't Have Ex's! I Have Y's. Like 'y The Hell Did I Date You?!

I Don't Know If I'm At The Relationship Advice Stage Yet. I Do Have A Lot Of Information To Share, And A Book Is Definitely In The Works, But I Don't Know Whether It'll Be Geared Towards Relationships.

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.

I Was Always Big On Laughs, Giving And Receiving. It Wasn't Necessarily Good For My Teachers. Of Course There's Times Where You Go Too Far. My Mom Had To Tell Me, "boy, If I Have To Come Down To This School One More Time, You're Gonna Get It."

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.

Some Sarcasm Is Best Told Simply.

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I'm Sure Everyone Knows Now That Only A Few Have Performed In Madison Square Garden. That List Is So Small. Now I'm On That List. I'm A Part Of A Very Small Group, Which Is Unbelievable. You Relish In That Moment For A Second.

Relationships Are Like Farting, If You Push Too Hard Things Could Get Messy Real Fast.

My Mom Was Very Strict. She Didn't Let Me Watch Anything Rated R Or Anything With Cussing.

I Think Death Is Not Simply The Last Few Moments Of Life, Death Is Something That Runs Throughout The Whole Of Life. Each Of Our Moments Is Not Only The Possibility Of Affirmation, But It's Also We're Saying Farewell At Each Moment To Something.

I Am An Angel. I Was Sent Here From God To Heal.

Take Me And My Role Seriously. Take My Talent Seriously.

You've Got To Put Yourself In Positions To Take Away What Can Be Said.

I've Done Auditions Where The Casting Director Is Taking The Paper Out Of My Hand In The Middle Of Reading.

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.

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 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.

When You Have Box-office Results, Hollywood Treats You Different. Hollywood Stands Up. Once You Get To The Point Where Hollywood Sees That You Create Results, Then The Demand For You Becomes Higher.

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.

Comedy's About Opening Up And Being Unique, But To A Point Where The Audience Can Relate To What You're Saying.

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