Top 100 Tyler Perry Quotes
#1. Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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#2. My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.
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#3. If you lie to yourself you will lie to God too.
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#4. 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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#5. I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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#6. I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was: God let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother. I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. So, they've already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.
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#7. I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.
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#9. If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.
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#10. Once 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.
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#11. I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.
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#12. 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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#13. Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.
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#14. You can't build your life around hurts from the past -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys
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#15. We are all allowed to support whoever we'd like to in this country. That's the greatest part about being an American - one of them, that is; you know what I mean?
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#16. Heartbreak can make you hard! But don't let it make you bitter.
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#17. A hunter only shoots a deer he can see, if you ain't being seen you ain't doing nothing!
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#18. I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.
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#19. I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.
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#20. All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.
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#21. 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.
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#22. You put some Vaseline under your eyes at night and under your chin, and you put a little bit on your chest and you'll avoid stretch marks and I'll get you some Vaseline, you can change your oil and fry chicken with it, too, but you best make sure you have something.
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#23. 'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
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#24. The dream will outlive the dreamer so dream big.
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#25. I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.
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#26. 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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#28. There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.
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#29. It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to.
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#30. I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells ... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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#31. A mother's love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
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#32. Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.
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#33. I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.
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#34. I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.
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#35. The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.
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#36. I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey.
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#37. Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.
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#38. 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.
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#39. There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
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#41. I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.
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#42. We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
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#43. God will really make your enemy your footstool
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#44. What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
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#45. What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.
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#46. Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. I love my mother to this day.
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#47. 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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#48. A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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#49. I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.
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#50. What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.
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#51. Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".
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#53. I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.
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#54. I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.
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#55. I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.
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#56. 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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#57. I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.
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#58. You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better
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#60. Bitterness is as toxic as stage 4 cancer.
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#61. My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.
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#62. Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.
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#63. The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules.
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#65. I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.
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#67. You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys
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#68. Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.
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#69. If it had not been for The Lord on my side I don't know where I would be.
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#70. Are You Living or Just Existing? -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys
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#71. The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.
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#72. Always aim for right and avoid doing wrong at all costs.
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#74. My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'
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#75. There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.
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#77. You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.
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#78. People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.
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#79. I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.
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#80. You close the door on me and tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to get in.
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#81. You can learn something from everything and everybody, especially the elderly.
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#82. 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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#83. It's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.
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#84. What I've learned is you treat women right.
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#85. When I have absolutely nothing to do, and I find myself in the middle of all of it going, "Wow!" When nothing's going on, that's when I get to stop and really appreciate the journey.
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#86. 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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#87. I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could this happen to me? I know I'm being tempted."
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#88. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
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#89. I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.
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#90. When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.
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#91. I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn't.
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#92. Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness.
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#93. 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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#94. I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.
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#95. People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.
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#96. I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!
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#97. While the most dangerous person in the world is a person with nothing to lose, the most powerful person in the world is a person with nothing to prove.
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#98. Be aware of the darkness but your focus should always be the light.
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#99. I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.
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#100. I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
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