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.
TYLER PERRYMadea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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I thank God for Closed Doors
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What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
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Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.
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It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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He who has the gold makes the rules.
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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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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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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.
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You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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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…
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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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Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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We don’t have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
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