Tyler Perry
actor, film director, screenwriter, playwright, film producer, songwriter, novelist, television director, film actor, television actor, stage actor, theatrical director, showrunner, television producer, writer, composer
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All Quotes by Tyler Perry
“If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.”
“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.”
“If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.”
“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 don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.”
“As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.”
“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.”
“There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.”
“I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.”
“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.”
“Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.”
“Norman Lear is my all-time, ultimate hero. He's an amazing man. That's one person I'm looking forward to meeting. What he did, with shows and sitcoms, he's my hero.”
“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.”
“Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.”
“That has never been heard of in the history of television. 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. So what takes most shows eight years to do, we do in a year”
“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.”
“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. One of the most painful things I ever had to do was bury her, realizing that even though I was her hero, I couldn't help her with this last thing. I couldn't help her get better. All I wanted was to give her everything she wanted. Everything my father didn't give her, everything she never had.”
“I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps [in Nutty Professor II], I said, "I'm going to try my hand at a female character." It was the brilliance of Eddie Murphy. I need to write him a check. Say thank you”
“What I know beyond a shadow of a doubt is that God is with me. I know that. I know that He's always been with me. It is evident in everything I have endured—and the fact that I made it through with some sanity.”
“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.”