There were certain areas in the country where I couldn’t go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
TYLER PERRYYou will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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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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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 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 look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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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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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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It’s a clear day Sonny, L A N D.
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God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.
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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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It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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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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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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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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He who has the gold makes the rules.
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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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A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.
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If you don’t want my God here, you don’t want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money…
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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.
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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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We don’t have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
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You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
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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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