Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
TYLER PERRYYou 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.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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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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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…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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What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
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You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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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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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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I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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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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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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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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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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Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.
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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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He who has the gold makes the rules.
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