Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
TYLER PERRYMusic is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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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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It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.
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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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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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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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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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What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
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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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…when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That’s the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.
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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.
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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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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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Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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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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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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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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