We don’t have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
TYLER PERRYI’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.
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 look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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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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He who has the gold makes the rules.
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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 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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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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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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I live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!
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It’s most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.
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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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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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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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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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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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