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.
TYLER PERRYMadea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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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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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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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You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
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What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
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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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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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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 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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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 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 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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A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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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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It’s a clear day Sonny, L A N D.
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