Tyler Perry Quotes

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

— Tyler Perry

“We didn't have much, but we had love.”

— Tyler Perry

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

— Tyler Perry

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

— Tyler Perry

“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.”

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

— Tyler Perry

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

— Tyler Perry

If it had not been for The Lord on my side I don't know where I would be.

— Tyler Perry

God will really make your enemy your footstool

— Tyler Perry

“Nothing is impossible for God.”

— Tyler Perry

“Life is short but heartache is shorter”

— Tyler Perry

“The dream will outlive the dreamer so dream big.”

— Tyler Perry

Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness.

— Tyler Perry

“Yes, God is real.”

— Tyler Perry

“A footstool is only needed when you need to get higher. Let your enemy lift you.”

— Tyler Perry

“You can learn something from everything and everybody, especially the elderly.”

— Tyler Perry

“The will to live is as strong as the will to love and be loved.”

— Tyler Perry

“It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to.”

— 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 think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

— Tyler Perry

“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.”

— Tyler Perry

“As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.”

— Tyler Perry

“My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.”

— 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

“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

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

— Tyler Perry

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

— Tyler Perry

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

— Tyler Perry

“I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn't.”

— Tyler Perry

“Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.”

— Tyler Perry

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.

— Tyler Perry

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

— Tyler Perry

“I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.”

— Tyler Perry

“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.”

— Tyler Perry

“I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.”

— Tyler Perry

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.

— Tyler Perry

“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.”

— Tyler Perry

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

— Tyler Perry

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.

— Tyler Perry

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

— Tyler Perry

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

— Tyler Perry

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

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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.”

— Tyler Perry

“Life is so precious, such a gift, and that you have to live for you.”

— Tyler Perry

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

— Tyler Perry

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

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“I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.”

— Tyler Perry

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.

— Tyler Perry

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

— Tyler Perry