There were certain areas in the country where I couldn’t go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
TYLER PERRYIf 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…
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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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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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Madea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
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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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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
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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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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.
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A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
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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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A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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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 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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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 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 most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.
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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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Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.
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…when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That’s the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.
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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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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 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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Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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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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You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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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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