I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
TYLER PERRYThere were certain areas in the country where I couldn’t go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
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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.
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People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.
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Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
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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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You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
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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.
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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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A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
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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.
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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 live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!
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There were certain areas in the country where I couldn’t go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
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A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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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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Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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