Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
TYLER PERRYPeople say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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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If you’ve ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you’ll understand that the underlying theme of everything I’ve done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.
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It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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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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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 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.
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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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There’s nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don’t hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn’t know and for the things they didn’t know to do.
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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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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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Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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There were certain areas in the country where I couldn’t go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
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He who has the gold makes the rules.
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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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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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