I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
TYLER PERRYYou can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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 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 don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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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 wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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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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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’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.
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You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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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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Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.
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He who has the gold makes the rules.
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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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