Top 40 Kevin James Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you are not learning, you are not living.”

— Kevin James

2. “Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.”

— Kevin James

3. “You’ve got to go after your dreams. If you don’t make an effort, nothing’s ever going to change.”

— Kevin James

4. “Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”

— Kevin James

5. “I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it’s 30 years later.”

— Kevin James

6. “Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.”

— Kevin James

7. “There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.”

— Kevin James

8. “Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.”

— Kevin James

9. “You don’t want to do anything that doesn’t glorify God in every way.”

— Kevin James

10. “I really wasn’t a class clown.”

— Kevin James

11. “Now I’m starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next ‘1’ ready to be launched in case I drop.”

— Kevin James

12. “Back in ’93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.”

— Kevin James

13. “Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone’s life.”

— Kevin James

14. “It’s always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.”

— Kevin James

15. “Every few months I’ll pop into a comedy club or go to Vegas.”

— Kevin James

16. “I’m not a gay man, but I will say this: I get it now. I know what all the hype is about.”

— Kevin James

17. “The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.”

— Kevin James

18. “I would always love to be an athlete, but it’s got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.”

— Kevin James

19. “I don’t want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.”

— Kevin James

20. “How big are muffins going to get before we all join hands across America? Have you seen them? They’re huge. “Yeah, I’ll take a coffee and... Oh, my God! Yeah, I’ll have the beanbag chair with raisins.”

— Kevin James

21. “I’ve always been the guy who doesn’t necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, ‘I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.’ And still I would question it. Did she mean it?”

— Kevin James

22. “I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.”

— Kevin James

23. “As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don’t go together. You can’t be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You’ve got to let go of the diet that day.”

— Kevin James

24. “My favorite movie of all time is ‘Rocky.’”

— Kevin James

25. “For some reason and I don’t know why, but I don’t think that I’m funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.”

— Kevin James

26. “I could never be James Bond.”

— Kevin James

27. “I want to do movies that I’m proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.”

— Kevin James

28. “A song can take you to a special time in your life.”

— Kevin James

29. “Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don’t get nervous for that. I just get excited.”

— Kevin James

30. “When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.”

— Kevin James

31. “You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn’t.”

— Kevin James

32. “I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn’t, no problem.”

— Kevin James

33. “When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.”

— Kevin James

34. “I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.”

— Kevin James

35. “I’ve always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.”

— Kevin James

36. “If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it’s a chubby kid, my mother is always like, ‘You were never like that.’ She gets so upset about it.”

— Kevin James

37. “I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.”

— Kevin James

38. “Nobody actually ever does this – escaping through a window.”

— Kevin James

39. “You know, when you’re a fat guy you don’t need a reason to sweat. Guys come up to me and go “Jeez... what have you been doing – jumping rope in the attic or something?“... “Umm, no... I peeled an orange about an hour ago, why?”

— Kevin James

40. “I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.”

— Kevin James

41. “I’m not a Hollywood guy.”

— Kevin James

42. “Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.”

— Kevin James

43. “I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He’s a Boston baby and I’m a New York guy.”

— Kevin James