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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.

Tyler Perry

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…
TYLER PERRY

Good Money Trying Want
Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
TYLER PERRY

Alive Jail Statistics
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.
TYLER PERRY

Character Jobs Thinking
Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.
TYLER PERRY

Being Just Knowing Peace
I’m not suspicious of success, I’m suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.
TYLER PERRY

People Want Suspicious
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.
TYLER PERRY

Deep Down Grudge People Real
Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.
TYLER PERRY

Laughing Lesson Life People
What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.
TYLER PERRY

Brain Film Wraps
Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
TYLER PERRY

Dope Light Waiting
I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
TYLER PERRY

Dream Give Up Thinking
Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
TYLER PERRY

Emotion Helping Music
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.
TYLER PERRY

Done Giving Moving
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.
TYLER PERRY

Drag People Uniforms
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.
TYLER PERRY

Opportunity People Thinking
I live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!
TYLER PERRY

Boxes Life Living Outside
A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
TYLER PERRY

Distance Mother Powerful

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