Tyler Perry Quotes

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  • I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.

    "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.
  • He who has the gold makes the rules.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

    Pain  
  • People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

  • I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

    Source: aalbc.com
  • What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

    Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, p.20, Penguin
  • For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

  • If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black, you are extraordinary, or you wouldn't stand out in this world.

    Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 14, 2012.
  • Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.

  • What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

  • Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.

    "Tyler Perry, Movie Mogul". Interview with Sheryl Garratt, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 21, 2010.
  • I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.

    "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.
  • Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

  • I always feed myself positivity. I turn to anything that teaches good, that teaches strength, and that you can make it. I swear to you that those kinds of thoughts come alive in your body and in anything you touch because your energy goes into everything you touch, everything you share and everything you speak. So, it's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.

    Source: aalbc.com
  • Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

  • When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

  • There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.

  • People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

    Hurt  
  • What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.

    Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, p.111, Penguin
  • Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

  • I thank God for Closed Doors

    Twitter post from Jun 03, 2013
  • Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

  • What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.

  • ...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.

    Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, p.48, Penguin
  • There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.

    "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.
  • I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

  • Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.

    Source: aalbc.com
  • What I've never wanted to do was allow myself to be put in a box, so I've tried to do a lot of different things so this is a step in trying to do something different so we'll see how it goes. I'm under no illusions that this is slam-dunk. I did the best I could and that's all I can rely on.

    Source: www.lasplash.com
  • Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.

    "Tyler Perry Holds on to His Past" by Scott Bowles and USA Today, abcnews.go.com. September 11, 2008.
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