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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.

Tyler Perry

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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Degrees Label Wall
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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Character Jobs Thinking
Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.
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Laughing Lesson Life People
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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Growing Important Moving Up
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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Opportunity People Thinking
I live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!
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Boxes Life Living Outside
A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
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Distance Mother Powerful
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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Different Thinking Wish
Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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Emotion Helping Music
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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Fans Shows Television Trying
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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Causes Enough Mystery
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.
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Human People Perfect 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.
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Biggest Life Take This Successes
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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Choices Integrity Way
I thank God for Closed Doors
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Closed Doors Doors God Thank
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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People Sorry Thinking
Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
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Boys Children Mother
Madea’ is a Southern term. It’s short for ‘mother dear.’ So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
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Mother Southern Term
It’s most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.
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Important Mind Positivity
Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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Alive Jail Statistics
If you’ve ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you’ll understand that the underlying theme of everything I’ve done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.
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Done Giving Moving
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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Being Just Knowing Peace
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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Different People Underdog
I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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Dream Give Up Thinking
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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Hurt People Trying
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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Hurt Learn Love Needing Pain
I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
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Inspiration Inspire People

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