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What I’ve learned is you treat women right.

Tyler Perry

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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Moving Thinking Uplifting
It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
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Forgiveness Journey Powerful
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
What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.
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Brain Film Wraps
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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Fans Shows Television Trying
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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Boys New Orleans Swimming
I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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Dream Give Up Thinking
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.
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Character Jobs Thinking
I’ve always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he’s a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.
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Actors Hollywood Thinking
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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Choices Integrity Way
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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Broadway Fans People Thinking
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
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Hurt Learn Love Needing Pain
People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.
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Hurt People Trying
I thank God for Closed Doors
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Closed Doors Doors God Thank
Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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Being Different Giving Happened
Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
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Boys Children Mother
It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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Behnd Costume Esasier
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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People Sorry Thinking
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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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.
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Opportunity People Thinking
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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Jobs Keys Summer
Once you’re truly happy with yourself alone, that’s when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.
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Happiness Life Rest Safe
He who has the gold makes the rules.
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Celebrity Gold Inspirational Rules
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
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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Amazing Special Woman
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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Different Thinking Wish

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