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.
TYLER PERRYWhat I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
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What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
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He who has the gold makes the rules.
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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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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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Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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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 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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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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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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The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
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It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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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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