Kevin Hart Quotes

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

Just write what comes to you.

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

One of the most positive takeaways I've had from 'SNL' is when we'd make videos back in the day: we'd just write material as we were inspired, and so, in a given year, we'd only put out two or three videos.