Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
TYLER PERRYHappiness 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.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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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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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A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
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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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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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What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.
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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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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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Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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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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I live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!
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He who has the gold makes the rules.
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A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
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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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Madea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
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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 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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Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
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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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…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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It’s most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.
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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.
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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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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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