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.
TYLER PERRYThe 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.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
-
-
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.
TYLER PERRY -
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 -
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 -
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.
TYLER PERRY -
He who has the gold makes the rules.
TYLER PERRY -
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.
TYLER PERRY -
Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
TYLER PERRY -
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.
TYLER PERRY -
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.
TYLER PERRY -
Don’t stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.
TYLER PERRY -
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.
TYLER PERRY -
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 -
Madea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
TYLER PERRY -
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.
TYLER PERRY -
Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
TYLER PERRY