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What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.

Tyler Perry

Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
TYLER PERRY

Dope Light Waiting
I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
TYLER PERRY

Dream Give Up Thinking
A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
TYLER PERRY

Degrees Label Wall
A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.
TYLER PERRY

Causes Enough Mystery
What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
TYLER PERRY

Learned Treats Women Rights
A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
TYLER PERRY

Distance Mother Powerful
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.
TYLER PERRY

Paper Suppose Trying Writing
You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
TYLER PERRY

God Good People Thousand
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.
TYLER PERRY

Jobs Keys Summer
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.
TYLER PERRY

Different People Underdog
Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
TYLER PERRY

Emotion Helping Music
Don’t stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.
TYLER PERRY

Giving Ideas Water
I’m not suspicious of success, I’m suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.
TYLER PERRY

People Want Suspicious
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.
TYLER PERRY

Caring People Thinking
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 PERRY

Blessed People Trying
Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
TYLER PERRY

Alive Jail Statistics

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