You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I’m putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don’t feel like it’s dressing in drag.
TYLER PERRYIt’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
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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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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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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
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We don’t have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
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You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
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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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Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
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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’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
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I’m very open to fresh talent, and I love the underdog, people who have been counted out, because they come in with a different type of hunger. I’m all for the underdog, so I’d like to talk to anybody who shows up with that sort of thirst.
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He who has the gold makes the rules.
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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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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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