Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
TYLER PERRYGod 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.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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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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 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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Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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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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I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There’s something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that’s really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.
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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’m not suspicious of success, I’m suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.
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What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
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Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
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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 live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!
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Ever since I’ve been blessed with success, I’ve struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I’ve had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, ‘Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?’ Then I feel like I can help.
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You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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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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There’s a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can’t meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.
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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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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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