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 PERRYI’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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I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
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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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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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What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.
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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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Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
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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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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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You will always fine jealous people.They’re the ones promoting you.
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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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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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You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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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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It’s a clear day Sonny, L A N D.
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