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 PERRYMy 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.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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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I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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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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Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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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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What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.
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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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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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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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He who has the gold makes the rules.
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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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Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
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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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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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