Madea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
TYLER PERRYDon’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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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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Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
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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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Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
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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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Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
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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 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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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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