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 PERRYI 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 PERRYEver 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 PERRYI thank God for Closed Doors
TYLER PERRYOnce you’re truly happy with yourself alone, that’s when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.
TYLER PERRYIt’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
TYLER PERRYLife 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 PERRYI 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 PERRYIt’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 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…
TYLER PERRYDeveloping a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
TYLER PERRYEveryone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
TYLER PERRYI don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
TYLER PERRYHe who has the gold makes the rules.
TYLER PERRYI 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.
TYLER PERRYI 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…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.
TYLER PERRY