Top 208 Quotes & Sayings by Tyler Perry - Page 3

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.

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

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

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

I tell people, if you're thinking about suicide, all that stuff I've attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

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.

I realized that here's a moment for me to learn so until I learn and understand more about how types of films are done - action, sci-fi - even though I have a desire to do it, I won't go into it until I'm very clear that I can do it and that moment hasn't come yet. Maybe one day I will ready, but for now, I just enjoyed playing the character.

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.

If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can’t get it together and you don’t know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don’t stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there’s one way. You can’t have any fear.

There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!

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.

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

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.

...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.

we didn't have much, but we had love.

You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.

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

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

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.

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

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.

What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.

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

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

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.

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

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

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.

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...

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.

You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

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

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

It's always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.

True love can come more than once.

I thank God for Closed Doors

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

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

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.

There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.

I'm not suspicious of success, I'm suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.

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

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

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

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.

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

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

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

I think that people think when you have money that your problems go away and everything's solved, and it's great and wonderful. You're a perfect human being.

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.

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.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

What excites me? Had you asked me that question a few years ago, the answer would’ve rolled right off my tongue. Today, I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.

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

I know I can only do as much as I can do... Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm still 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.

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

There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.

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