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 PERRYI’m not suspicious of success, I’m suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.
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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 have this huge, huge fan base of people who’ve never seen a Broadway show, but I think it’s a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you’re getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.
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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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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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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
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I thank God for Closed Doors
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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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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.
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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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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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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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The 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.
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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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