Kevin Hart famous quotes

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

#Fun #Life Is Too Short #Giving

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

#Goal #Relax #Shapes

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

#Girl #Real #Talking

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.
-- Kevin Hart

#Jesus #Dark #Hands

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

#Fans #Crowds

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.
-- Kevin Hart

#Who I Am #Comedian #Special

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

#Giving Up #Struggle #Successful

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

#Firsts #Violent #Situation

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

#Want

The kind of love that God has for us, I think, is of an infinite longing for union, and the kind of love that God wants us to have for him, I think, is of this also endless longing. Now in eros we lose ourselves. I think erotic love transforms us, but it does so only momentarily. It has to be embedded in something much longer, a much bigger narrative called marriage or durable relationship or something like that.
-- Kevin Hart

#Thinking #Doe #Unions

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

#Looks #Life Is #Should

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.
-- Kevin Hart

#Christian #Sacrifice #Love Is

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

#Thinking #Feet #Faces

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.
-- Kevin Hart

#Spiritual #Pain #Sadness

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

#Kids #Character #Relationship Problem

Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.
-- Kevin Hart

#Prayer #Reading #Order

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

#Thinking #Being Lied #Realizing

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.
-- Kevin Hart

#Prayer #Opportunity #Thinking

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

#Writing #Trying #Adequate

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.
-- Kevin Hart

#Christian #Religious #Buddhist

We don't always possess faith in the sense of having a clear embodiment of something to hang on to. The relationship between the intellect and faith is a very curious one. Sometimes the intellect can point us to faith, sometimes the intellect can stand in the way of faith. Sometimes, as St John of the Cross points out, we have to darken or blind the intellect in order to have faith.
-- Kevin Hart

#Order #Have Faith #Embodiment

In marriage for example, you say 'Yes' on the day you get married, 'I do', but each day you implicitly if not explicitly, also say 'Yes', by every act that one performs in a marriage, one is saying 'Yes', making a cup of coffee for one's wife or husband is a form of saying 'Yes' to the marriage vow that one is continuing the marriage by affirming it in one's deeds. And exactly the same in the religious life.
-- Kevin Hart

#Religious #Husband #Coffee

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

#Simple #Sublime #Trying

As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.
-- Kevin Hart

#Writing #Trying #Anxious

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.
-- Kevin Hart

#Running #Farewell #Thinking

So unless we form some kind of adequate relationship to death, we're never going to live properly, and if we think of it purely as a medical thing, we have reduced life. We should think of it as some sort of mystery which we can participate in now, not something to be pushed off to one side till the last moments.
-- Kevin Hart

#Thinking #Adequate #Lasts

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.
-- Kevin Hart

#Religious #Writing #Thinking

Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.
-- Kevin Hart

#Spiritual #Writing #Thinking

I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.
-- Kevin Hart

#Christian #Religious #Prayer

When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.
-- Kevin Hart

#Prayer #Sunday #Thinking

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."
-- Kevin Hart

#Real #Stupid #Mean

The beauty of me is I'm always going to ask. I'll never not ask.
-- Kevin Hart

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.
-- Kevin Hart

#Hair #Skins #Nuggets

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.
-- Kevin Hart

#Awards #Next Steps #Different

I just don't believe people can tame animals.
-- Kevin Hart

#Believe #Animal #People

I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.
-- Kevin Hart

#Writing #Moguls #Projects

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

#Sarcasm #Bigs

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

#Successful #Careers #People

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed.
-- Kevin Hart

#Important #Directors #Able

I want to be funny, but it has to be a believable funny.
-- Kevin Hart

#Want

My rule is to save myself first.
-- Kevin Hart

#Firsts

Some people come to work and that's exactly what it is - work.
-- Kevin Hart

#People

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.
-- Kevin Hart

#Mean #Long #Directors

I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.
-- Kevin Hart

#Understanding #Different #Firsts

The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.
-- Kevin Hart

#Want #Stuff #Facts

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

#Blessing #Blood #Sweat

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

#Humble #Thinking #Careers

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

#Hard Work #People #Want

When you're in these movie deals and the studios are talking, they're putting business deals and packages together, but they're making calls based on previous relationships. They go, "Oh, let's call this actor because we did this with him, and he might like him. Does he like him? Let's piece them together." There's a brain behind that puzzle, and I want to be the brain.
-- Kevin Hart

#Talking #Brain #Together

I know how I get hard. Running on a treadmill behind women in a gym normally does it for me.
-- Kevin Hart

#Running #Doe #Treadmills

Being humble matters.
-- Kevin Hart

#Humble #Matter #Be Humble

Some sarcasm is best told simply.
-- Kevin Hart

#Sarcasm

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

#Laughter #Thinking #Laughing

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

#Hard Work #Years #Play

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.
-- Kevin Hart

#Sports #Jockeys #Tweed

Bieber has 10 million fans - most are in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one.
-- Kevin Hart

#School #Feet #Fans

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

#Hate #People #Being Different

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

#Hell #Exes

What? Okay, back up. How in the hell do you 'turn up missing'?
-- Kevin Hart

#Funny #Missing #Hell

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

#Real #Messy #Hard Things

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.
-- Kevin Hart

#Rocks #The End Of The Day #Bills

How the hell do you wake up dead?
-- Kevin Hart

#Funny #Wake Up #Comedy

My baby is weird man... when he get mad, he gets in the oven.
-- Kevin Hart

#Funny #Baby #Men

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

#Differences #Settling