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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.

Tyler Perry

It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
TYLER PERRY

Behnd Costume Esasier
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

Hurt People Trying
You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
TYLER PERRY

God Good People Thousand
Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
TYLER PERRY

Alive Jail Statistics
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.
TYLER PERRY

Character Jobs Thinking
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.
TYLER PERRY

Biggest Life Take This Successes
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.
TYLER PERRY

Different People Underdog
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.
TYLER PERRY

Earth Life Live might
What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.
TYLER PERRY

Brain Film Wraps
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 PERRY

Human People Perfect Thinking
We don’t have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
TYLER PERRY

Light People Waiting
There were certain areas in the country where I couldn’t go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
TYLER PERRY

Certain Country Years
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.
TYLER PERRY

Forgiveness Journey Powerful
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 PERRY

Blessed People Trying
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

Boys New Orleans Swimming
What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
TYLER PERRY

Come God Learned

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 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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