Top 208 Quotes & Sayings by Tyler Perry
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
For me, there is a guiding compass that just lives inside of me. Every time I've gone against it, something bad has happened. As long as I stay in line and honor it, it has really been life changing.
When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.
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.
I love to give. I've been a giver all my life.
What I've learned is you treat women right.
Developing a good work ethic is key. 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.
I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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.
Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.
If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyone is great and wonderful and perfect. I wanted to write it so that you're not really sure who the haves are. You look at Hanna, and you see that she doesn't have much, but she has great faith.
If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. You're holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally.
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.
I have very simple tastes. An ex-girlfriend used to tell me I have the palate of a kid because there are only five or six foods that I love. And if you rotate them on a regular basis, that's all I need to eat - like arugula, spinach, and grilled chicken.
You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman!
I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
In order to have the success with 'Empire,' you have to have Fox; you have to have huge P&A. You have to have huge budgets for the show. I'm pretty confident that the budget of 'Empire' is six times what I'm spending on 'Have And Have Nots.'
Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.
I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
I've always believed in God, from the time I was very, very young. I always knew there was something with me, not necessarily knowing what to call it.
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.
'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.
The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.
Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either.
I feel like I died as a child.
Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.
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.
The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules.
What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.
I don't want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do.
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.
Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day.
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?'
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.
Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.
I don't like popcorn, and I think it's so annoying when people have popcorn in the theaters. That is the loudest food.
I'm not interested in doing 'Star Wars.' It's an amazing movie, but that's not my gift. I tell the stories that I tell that relate to the people who love what I do. That is the place and the path that I know I am supposed to be on. The minute I try and go do something else, it will be amazing to watch how quickly that don't work.
I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.
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.
He who has the gold makes the rules.
I'm not a social media person; I don't know what's going on unless somebody tells me.
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.
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.
I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.
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.
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.
There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on and back in the day when, you know, Ray Charles and Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, they couldn't get into white establishments, so they went on this circuit and toured. They were huge stars in their own community, you know, and that's pretty much my same story.
I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.
I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.
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.
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.
You close the door on me and tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to get in.
The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.
You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
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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