Tyler Perry quotes:

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'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.

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.

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.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

You close the door on me and tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to get in.

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.

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.

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

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?'

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

What I've learned is you treat women right.

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.

I feel like I died as a child.

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

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

Your beginning never dictates your destnation."

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

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.

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.

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

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.

...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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

I love to give. I've been a giver all my life.

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

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

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.

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

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

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.

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

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

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

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.

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

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.

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

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

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

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.

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.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

I always feed myself positivity. I turn to anything that teaches good, that teaches strength, and that you can make it. I swear to you that those kinds of thoughts come alive in your body and in anything you touch because your energy goes into everything you touch, everything you share and everything you speak. So, it's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.

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.

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

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

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.

I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that..

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. So, they've already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.

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.

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

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.

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

I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.

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.

I thank God for Closed Doors

I think that people think when you have money that your problems go away and everything's solved, and it's great and wonderful. You're a perfect human being.

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

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. 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.

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.

I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could this happen to me? I know I'm being tempted."

I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.

If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself...I know you don't believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I'd want to be your knight in shining armor. You've been through so much. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain. I don't want you to worry about anything. You just wake up in the morning, that's all you have to do and I'll take it from there...There's one condition...You have to be my wife

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.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black, you are extraordinary, or you wouldn't stand out in this world.

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.

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.