It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
TYLER PERRYYou 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.
More Tyler Perry Quotes
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It’s most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.
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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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What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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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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Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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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’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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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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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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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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Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
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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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A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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