Tyler Perry Quotes

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.

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.

God has not given us a spirit of fear.

You really will reap what you sew.

You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman!

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

I know I can only do as much as I can do. Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm very interested in helping to cultivate and encourage some promising new artists. But there are a lot of people and, unfortunately, a very small window.

Flying radio-controlled airplanes is the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's a fascinating hobby.

Bitterness is as toxic as stage 4 cancer.

Live where you are so God can meet you at your needs.

Teach but never try to change people because sometimes they change back.

The will to live is as strong as the will to love and be loved.

It takes a while to build a dream

You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.

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.

I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey.

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.

It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to.

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.

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.

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.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

It's a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accomplished so much with the network, and I'm excited to work with her to be a part of its continued growth.

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face
they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.

A hunter only shoots a deer he can see, if you ain't being seen you ain't doing nothing!

What excites me? I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.

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.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

Take time to smell the roses but be careful of the bees.

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

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.

Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness.

You give away your power when you don't forgive.

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.

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.

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.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

Who you are at 20 will not be who you are at 40 and if it is, SOMETHING IS WRONG!

The joy of The Lord really is strength.

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

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.

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.

I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that..

A footstool is only needed when you need to get higher. Let your enemy lift you.

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then
as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

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.

It's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.

Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

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.

A baby can heal broken hearts.

Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you but that's alright, when they put you in that box (after your dead), they're going to put dirt on you some more, so that's okay - GO, don't be afraid, have NO FEAR.

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.

I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

True love can come more than once.

I love to give. I've been a giver all my life.

Developing 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.

Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.

I 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.

You can learn something from everything and everybody, especially the elderly.

Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words.

A mother's love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells ... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

Life is so precious, such a gift, and that you have to live for you.

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.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.

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.

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.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

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.

I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.

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.

It's a clear day Sonny, L A N D.

Don't share your dreams with everyone and don't be angry with non-dreamers.

There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.

I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!

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.

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

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.

Being alone doesn't necessarily mean that you're lonely.

I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.

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.

Prayer really can change things.

Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

Be aware of the darkness but your focus should always be the light.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.

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.

As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.

I'm just enjoying my life.I suggest you try it.