Tyler Perry Quotes:

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

Topics: God, Spiritual, People

I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that's the job of an actor.

Topics: Jobs, Character, Thinking

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

Topics: People, Focus, Critics

I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.

Topics: Moguls, Really Great, Position

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.

Topics: Happiness, Safe, Happy With Yourself, Truly Happy

I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.

Topics: Thinking, Wish, Done

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

Topics: People, Thousand

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

Topics: Order

My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

Topics: This Life

Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.

Topics: Life Lesson, Laughing, People, Living Better

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Topics: Giving, Stay Focused, Lanes, Everything Will Be Alright

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.

Topics: Summer, Jobs, Keys, Janitor, Good Work Ethic

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Topics: Forgiveness, Powerful, Journey, What Is Forgiveness, Power Of Forgiveness

I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.

Topics: Laughing, People, Guy

We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.

Topics: Light, People, Waiting, Green Lights

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.

Topics: Successful, People, Black

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

Topics: Dream, People, Upset

I haven't had a worst business decision, because I believe all things work together for good.

Topics: Believe, Decision, Together, Business Decisions

A mother's love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

Topics: Mother, Powerful, Distance

What excites me? I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.

Topics: Uplifting, Moving, Thinking

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

Topics: Growing Up, Moving, Important

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: - Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

Topics: Positivity, Mind, Important

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.

Topics: Long, People, Church

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

Topics: Drama, Comedy, Critics

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

Topics: Secret, Important, Needs

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.

Topics: Pain, People, Childhood

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.

Topics: Live Life, Earth, Might

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

Topics: Inspiration, People, Inspire

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

Topics: Emotion, Helping, Music Is

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.

Topics: Ideas, Water, Giving

I'm very open to fresh talent, and I love the underdog, people who have been counted out, because they come in with a different type of hunger. I'm all for the underdog, so I'd like to talk to anybody who shows up with that sort of thirst.

Topics: People, Underdog, Different

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

Topics: Forgiveness, Hurt, Forgiving, Walking Forward

Flying radio-controlled airplanes is the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's a fascinating hobby.

Topics: Airplane, Sky, Giving

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

Topics: Thinking, Skeletons, Dust, Nobody Cares

If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself...I know you don't believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I'd want to be your knight in shining armor. You've been through so much. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain. I don't want you to worry about anything. You just wake up in the morning, that's all you have to do and I'll take it from there...There's one condition...You have to be my wife

Topics: Hurt, Morning, Pain, Knight In Shining Armor, Knight In Shining Armour

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

Topics: Husband, Children, Thinking

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.

Topics: Running, Teacher, Responsibility, Willing To Try

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

Topics: People, Forgiving, Important

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

Topics: Moving, Heaven, Black, Heaven And Earth

...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.

Topics: Differences, Causes, Skirts, Frisbee

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

Topics: Dope, Light, Waiting, Green Lights

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

Topics: Black, Black Women, Earrings, Madea

You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.

Topics: Jealous, People, Jealous People, Promoting

I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that..

Topics: People, Beats

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Topics: Hurt, Past, Prey

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Topics: Prey

You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Topics: Misery, Make Yourself Happy, Prey

It's a clear day Sonny, L A N D.

Topics: Clear, Clear Day

You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.

Topics: Men, Voice, Honor

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

Topics: Running, Attitude, Mistake, Stop Lying, Stupid Things

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.

Topics: Real, People, Grudge, Deep Down

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

Topics: Wall, Labels, Degrees

Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!

Topics: Focus, Priorities, Matter, Focus On One Thing

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.

source: - Source: thesource.com

Topics: People, Stories, Welcome

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

Topics: Share

The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.

Topics: People, Grace, Truth Is

True love can come more than once.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

source: - "44 Things Tyler Perry Has Learned, by Tyler Perry" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 14, 2013.

I tell people, if you're thinking about suicide, all that stuff I've attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

source: - "Tyler Perry recounts childhood abuse on Web site", www.cnn.com. October 7, 2009.

Topics: Suicide, Moving, Thinking, Just Keep Moving, Life Gets Better

I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.

Topics: Sexy, Trying, Months, Thongs

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Topics: Lows

I'm just enjoying my life.I suggest you try it.

Topics: Trying, Enjoy, Enjoying My Life

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

Topics: People, Uniforms, Drag

You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better

Topics: Past, Use, Something Better

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: - "Tyler on Madea and More". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

Topics: Honor And Respect, Trying, Path

I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!

Topics: Living My Life, Boxes, I Live My Life

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

source: - Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, p.248, Penguin

Topics: People, Common Sense, Laughing, Insulted

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.

Topics: Knowing, Just Being, Being At Peace

Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you but that's alright, when they put you in that box (after your dead), they're going to put dirt on you some more, so that's okay - GO, don't be afraid, have NO FEAR.

Topics: Dream, Spiritual, People

If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can’t get it together and you don’t know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don’t stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there’s one way. You can’t have any fear.

Topics: Fall, Trying, Together, True Success, Get It Together

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

source: - "44 Things Tyler Perry Has Learned, by Tyler Perry" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 14, 2013.

Topics: Mother, Powerful, Distance

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

source: - Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, p.20, Penguin

Topics: Where You Come, Life Is, This Life

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

Topics: Hurt, People, Trying, Truth Hurts

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Integrity, Choices, Way

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.

source: - "Oprah Talks to Tyler Perry". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December, 2010.

Topics: Mother, Children, Boys, Unbreakable

I'm not suspicious of success, I'm suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: People, Want, Suspicious

I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Simple, People, Matter

I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

source: - "Oprah Talks to Tyler Perry". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2010.

Topics: Dream, Giving Up, Thinking

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money...

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Trying, Want, Has Beens

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.

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

Topics: Blessed, People, Trying, Asking For Money

I thank God for Closed Doors

source: - Twitter post from Jun 03, 2013

Topics: Doors, Thank God, Closed Doors

I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was: God let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother. I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. So, they've already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Mother, Prayer, Play

I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

Topics: Hollywood, Entourage, Crap

we didn't have much, but we had love.

source: - Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, p.22, Penguin

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

Topics: Work Out, Grows, Rings

I realized that here's a moment for me to learn so until I learn and understand more about how types of films are done - action, sci-fi - even though I have a desire to do it, I won't go into it until I'm very clear that I can do it and that moment hasn't come yet. Maybe one day I will ready, but for now, I just enjoyed playing the character.

source: - Source: www.lasplash.com

Topics: Character, Desire, One Day

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

Topics: Jail, Alive, Statistics

I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Thinking, Born, This Life

I think that people think when you have money that your problems go away and everything's solved, and it's great and wonderful. You're a perfect human being.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Thinking, People, Perfect

Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

Topics: Believe, Hype, Numbers, Box Office

The important thing for me is, and what I'd like people to know is that, one particular genre does not make it whole. There are many, many different genres and if you ever gave it an opportunity open mindedly, I think you'd find some pretty interesting things there.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Opportunity, Thinking, People, Different Genres

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: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Honor And Respect, Giving, Trying

I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Thinking, Who I Am, Done

If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Moving, Giving, Done, Blinders, Give It A Chance

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

Topics: Love, Hurt, Pain, Hurt Pain, How To Forgive

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Years, Understood

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.

Topics: Mother, Church Choir, Grace, Saving Grace

I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: People, Audience, Studios

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.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Sitting, Notes, Executing

You put some Vaseline under your eyes at night and under your chin, and you put a little bit on your chest and you'll avoid stretch marks and I'll get you some Vaseline, you can change your oil and fry chicken with it, too, but you best make sure you have something.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Eye, Night, Oil, Stretch Marks, Vaseline

There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.

Topics: Tv Shows, Trying, Fans

As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Yes I Can, Appreciate, Illusion

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

Topics: Brain, Film, Wraps

I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.

Topics: Christian, Real, Believe

There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!

Topics: Journey, Men, People, Nelson, God Bless You

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

Topics: Mother, Southern, Term, Madea

It's always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.

source: - Source: www.lasplash.com

I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.

Topics: Hard Work, Years, Giving

Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.

Topics: Giving Up, Being Different, Happened

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

Topics: Trying, Height

I have this huge, huge fan base of people who've never seen a Broadway show, but I think it's a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you're getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Thinking, People, Fans, Broadway Shows

Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.

source: - Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

Topics: Growing Up, Doors, Next, Next Door Neighbors

I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.

source: - Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

Topics: My Favorite, Dishes, Menus

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: - Source: www.lasplash.com

Topics: Trying, Different, Illusion

I've been doing television for quite some time, so Oprah Winfrey and I thought it was a great idea to partner up. I am going to buy my own network and I thought it was a great opportunity for both of us. It's a win-win because I get the opportunity to give her what she needs, which is programming, and at the same time, I get to learn how to run a network.

source: - Source: www.lasplash.com

Topics: Running, Opportunity, Giving

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

Topics: Long, Want, Reinforcement, Positive Reinforcement

I'm good at giving up control to people who know where they're going and what they want to do. I can sit in the back of a car and ride cross-country if you know where you're going and you know how to take me there.

source: - Source: www.lasplash.com

Topics: Giving Up, People, Giving

What I've learned is you treat women right.

source: - "Meet America's first black movie mogul" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2009.

Topics: I've Learned, Treats, Women Right

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Children, Differences, Abuse

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.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: New Orleans, People, Proud

I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Issues, Trying, Addresses

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Sorry, Thinking, People

There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Country, Years, Certain

There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

Topics: Beautiful, Block, School

When I have absolutely nothing to do, and I find myself in the middle of all of it going, "Wow!" When nothing's going on, that's when I get to stop and really appreciate the journey.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Journey, Appreciate, Wow

I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could this happen to me? I know I'm being tempted."

Topics: Husband, Thinking, People

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

Topics: Mother, Strong, Aunt

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

Topics: People, Film, Relate

My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.

source: - "Tyler Perry Transforms: From Madea To Family Man". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 15, 2012.

Topics: Mother, Father, Role Models

I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.

Topics: Curves, Shoes, Feet

I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.

Topics: Caring, Thinking, People, Stop Caring, Realize Life

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

Topics: Thinking, Hollywood, Actors

It's a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accomplished so much with the network, and I'm excited to work with her to be a part of its continued growth.

source: - "Oprah Winfrey's OWN Inks Multi-Year Deal With Tyler Perry" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 1, 2012.

Topics: Dream, Growth, Excited, Continued Growth

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.

source: - "Tyler Perry, Movie Mogul". Interview with Sheryl Garratt, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

Topics: Hollywood, Three, Four

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

Topics: Swimming, Boys, New Orleans, Black Boy

I know I can only do as much as I can do... Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm still very interested in helping to cultivate and encourage some promising new artists. But there are a lot of people and, unfortunately, a very small window.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Artist, Ideas, People, New Artists

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.

source: - "The Madea's Family Reunion Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

Topics: Writing, Trying, Paper

Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.

Topics: Special, Amazing Woman, Special To Me

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.

Topics: People, Film, Company, Touchstones

What excites me? Had you asked me that question a few years ago, the answer would’ve rolled right off my tongue. Today, I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Uplifting, Moving, Thinking

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

source: - "Tyler Perry Responds To Spike Lee Rivalry: 'I’ve Always Been A Fan Of His' (VIDEO)", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

Topics: Directors, Looks, Stories

There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.

source: - "44 Things Tyler Perry Has Learned, by Tyler Perry" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 14, 2013.

Topics: Morning, Night, Joy

I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.

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

Topics: Believe, Demand, Want

He who has the gold makes the rules.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Inspirational, Gold, Inspirational Celebrity