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.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
I’m not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
Tyler Perry
I love a good breakfast – grits and eggs, French toast, turkey bacon. My grandmother on my father’s side used to make tea cakes, and her breakfasts were unbelievable. There was fresh ham, and she would go out to the yard to get fresh eggs. She lived in rural Louisiana, and we’d spend summers with her.
Tyler Perry
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
Tyler Perry
I don’t want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do.
Tyler Perry
I don’t want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do.
Tyler Perry
I definitely do not like Halloween. I don’t like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or witches. They’re not just my thing.
Tyler Perry
Macaroni and cheese was my mother’s special dish. She’d also make jambalaya and dirty rice and bake a ham that would be incredible. And greens. But if you were looking for vegetables and healthy things, there weren’t a lot of those.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There’s something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that’s really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
I don’t like popcorn, and I think it’s so annoying when people have popcorn in the theaters. That is the loudest food.
Tyler Perry
Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She’s the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.
Tyler Perry
You close the door on me and tell me I can’t, I’m gonna find a way to get in.
Tyler Perry
As I experience life and go through things, that’s what I write about.
Tyler Perry
What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
Tyler Perry
I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
He who has the gold makes the rules.
Tyler Perry
What I’ve learned is you treat women right.
Tyler Perry
My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that.
Tyler Perry
I’m not a social media person; I don’t know what’s going on unless somebody tells me.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
I don’t have a writer’s room. I write all the shows myself. Ninety-one episodes a season, I’m sitting there at the computer writing and writing and writing because I want the voice to be authentic so that the audience is hearing from me and not other writers.
Tyler Perry
As a member of the Feeding America Entertainment Council, I recognize our mission to spread the word and rally the country in the fight to end hunger.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
Tyler Perry
My mother wasn’t strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.
Tyler Perry
After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House – it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.
Tyler Perry
The idea of Christ’s love for us all is inspiring to me.
Tyler Perry
I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.
Tyler Perry
You don’t try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That’s Morgan Freeman!
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.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
My life has always been – there’s never been a middle. Either I had or I didn’t. Either I was up or I was down.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
I love to give. I’ve been a giver all my life.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry
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.
Tyler Perry