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.
TYLER PERRYI 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.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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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It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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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 don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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I thank God for Closed Doors
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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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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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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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You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
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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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I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.
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A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.
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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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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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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.
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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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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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