It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
TYLER PERRYWhat 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.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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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.
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Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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I’m not suspicious of success, I’m suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.
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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.
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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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