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.

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.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

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

Being humble matters.

I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.

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.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I've known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was 'Along Came Polly.'

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

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'

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

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.

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart's 'The Big House.' And a hand grabs my shoulder, 'Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.' It's a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can't.

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

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.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

The original 'About Last Night' was phenomenal.

Everybody that's successful lays a blueprint out.

I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.

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

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

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.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

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. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

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.

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 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.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.

Stand-up is my baby.

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.

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

An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.

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

'Best Man Holiday' was a very successful film.

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

Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'

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.

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.'

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

I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don't box, but I'll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.

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.'

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

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

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 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.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.