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Tyler Perry Quotes

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

– Tyler Perry

The idea of Christ’s love for us all is inspiring to me.

– Tyler Perry

Seven years after my mother’s passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day.

– Tyler Perry

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

– Tyler Perry

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.

– 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

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

My father who was there in the house, he wasn’t at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.

– 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

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.

– Tyler Perry

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

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

– Tyler Perry

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I’ve ever had, plus my studio.

– Tyler Perry

There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren’t a lot who get to see them realized.

– 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

There’s a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can’t meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.

– 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

All my life I’ve tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

– Tyler Perry

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.

– Tyler Perry

I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

– Tyler Perry

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?’

– Tyler Perry

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

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

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.

– Tyler Perry

I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

– 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

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

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

– Tyler Perry

We are all allowed to support whoever we’d like to in this country. That’s the greatest part about being an American – one of them, that is; you know what I mean?

– Tyler Perry

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.

– Tyler Perry

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