I’m not in the loop; I don’t know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

I laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

I’m a big fan of Aamir Khan… Among actresses, I like Aishwarya Rai.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

Too much TV hurts movies.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

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.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

I stopped watching TV because of ‚The Wire.‘ Like, ‚The Wire‘ ruined everything for me because I don’t even want to watch anything else now.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

She’s a total professional, a diva, a mega-star, not just in music but in the entertainment industry. You always learn from the greats, and J.Lo is one.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

I think, first of all, I don’t think people understand Ice Cube’s body of work. Ice Cube is a, and I hate to use the word ‚urban‘ but – when you think of Judd Apatow, and a person who’s launched so many careers, Ice Cube has done that for so many comedians, you know?

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

I’m just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want ‚cause I’m a fan of hip-hop.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart – they were wonderful actors. They didn’t act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.