I live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!
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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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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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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What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
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My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
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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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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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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 look at the stories that Spike Lee tells… Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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