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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.

Tyler Perry

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

Learned Treats Women Rights
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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Drag People Uniforms
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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Human People Perfect Thinking
It’s most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.
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Important Mind Positivity
…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.
TYLER PERRY

Causes Differences Dresses
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.
TYLER PERRY

Curve Feet Shoes
I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.
TYLER PERRY

Beats. Doing Heck People
I live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!
TYLER PERRY

Boxes Life Living Outside
We don’t have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
TYLER PERRY

Light People Waiting
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
TYLER PERRY

Hurt Learn Love Needing Pain
It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
TYLER PERRY

Behnd Costume Esasier
Happiness 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.
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Being Just Knowing Peace
I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that’s the job of an actor.
TYLER PERRY

Character Jobs Thinking
Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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Alive Jail Statistics
A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
TYLER PERRY

Degrees Label Wall
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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Paper Suppose Trying Writing
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.
TYLER PERRY

Boys New Orleans Swimming
There were certain areas in the country where I couldn’t go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
TYLER PERRY

Certain Country Years
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.
TYLER PERRY

People Sorry Thinking
You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
TYLER PERRY

Fine Jealous People
Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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Emotion Helping Music
People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.
TYLER PERRY

Hurt People Trying
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
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.
TYLER PERRY

Opportunity People Thinking
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.
TYLER PERRY

Fans Shows Television Trying
It’s a clear day Sonny, L A N D.
TYLER PERRY

Clear Day Land
A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
TYLER PERRY

Distance Mother Powerful

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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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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