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 PERRYIf 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…
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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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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What excites me? Had you asked me that question a few years ago, the answer would’ve rolled right off my tongue. Today, I think it’s moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.
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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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We don’t have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
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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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Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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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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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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Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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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 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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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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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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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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