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Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr.; September 13, 1969) is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2011, Forbes listed him as the highest-paid man in entertainment, earning US$130 million between May 2010 and May 2011.
Perry created and performs the Madea character, a tough elderly woman. Perry's films vary in style from orthodox filmmaking techniques to filmed productions of live stage plays. Many of Perry's stage-play films have been subsequently adapted as feature films.
Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. Perry has developed several television series, most notably Tyler Perry's House of Payne, which ran for eight seasons on TBS from June 21, 2006 to August 10, 2012. On October 2, 2012, Perry struck an exclusive multi-year partnership with Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah Winfrey Network. The partnership was largely for the sake of bringing scripted television to OWN, based on Perry's previous success in this area. Perry has created multiple scripted series for the network, The Haves and the Have Nots being its most successful. The Haves and the Have Nots has given OWN its highest ratings to date as of 2014, with the series also referred to as "one of OWN's biggest success stories with its weekly dose of soapy fun, filled with the typical betrayals, affairs and manipulations."Perry has additionally acted in films not directed or produced by himself, including as Admiral Barnett in Star Trek (2009), the titular character in Alex Cross (2012), Tanner Bolt in Gone Girl (2014), Baxter Stockman in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) and Colin Powell in Vice (2018).
Perry is included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2020. In 2020, Perry was awarded the Governors Award from the Primetime Emmy Awards, and the following year, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy Awards.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.

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I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.

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I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.

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I don't like popcorn, and I think it's so annoying when people have popcorn in the theaters. That is the loudest food.

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I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.

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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.

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

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When I have absolutely nothing to do, and I find myself in the middle of all of it going, Wow! When nothing's going on, that's when I get to stop and really appreciate the journey.

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There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.

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The important thing for me is, and what I'd like people to know is that, one particular genre does not make it whole. There are many, many different genres and if you ever gave it an opportunity open mindedly, I think you'd find some pretty interesting things there.

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I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that's the job of an actor.

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I have this huge, huge fan base of people who've never seen a Broadway show, but I think it's a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you're getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.

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

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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.

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I haven't had a worst business decision, because I believe all things work together for good.

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God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

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Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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

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Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.

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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.

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I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.

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

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I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.

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

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Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.

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

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Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better.

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

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

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Flying radio-controlled airplanes is my guiltiest pleasure. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. It's a fascinating hobby.

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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.

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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.

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When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fishy that reminds me of that taste, I can't eat. I love Chilean sea bass because I don't taste it there. But salmon? No, no, no.

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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.

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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.

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I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.

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A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.

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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.

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Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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I don't want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do.

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In order to have the success with 'Empire,' you have to have Fox; you have to have huge PandA. 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.'

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I'm trying to conquer swimming. I'm getting there. I've gotta conquer it. I had a fear of drowning and tunnels and flying. I started flying and got my pilot's license, so I conquered that. Now, I'm onto swimming and tunnels.

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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.

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Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.'

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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.

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I haven't read a book in a very, very long time because, when I'm writing, I don't like to see other people's work. I don't want to see something great and not be able to use it, and I don't want to have any subconscious influences.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I try to write from a point of view with my faith being always present and always there. don't want to write characters where everyone is saved. So this Madea character for me is not saved.

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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.

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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.

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I'm not a social media person; I don't know what's going on unless somebody tells me.

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Having my son has changed so much of what I dream about. It used to be about business, business, what's the next deal? What's the next movie? Now it's about him.

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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.

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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.

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

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I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing.

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

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I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.

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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.

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My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that.

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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.

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I knew that love was around. I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn't.

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

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People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

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The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.

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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

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I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.

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Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.

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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.

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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.

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'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman!

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I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.

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

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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.

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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?'

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I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic -- as if I don't know that!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

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I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.

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I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.

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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.

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

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Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

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

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You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

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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.

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I definitely do not like Halloween. I don't like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or witches. They're not just my thing.

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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.

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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.