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.
TYLER PERRYI look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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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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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What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
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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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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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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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You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
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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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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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It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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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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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 live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!
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We don’t have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
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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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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 have this huge, huge fan base of people who’ve never seen a Broadway show, but I think it’s a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you’re getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.
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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.
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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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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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He who has the gold makes the rules.
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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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Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
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