Tyler Perry Quotes

“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.”

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

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

“I thank God for Closed Doors”

“People always try to do the right thing.. after they've tried everything else.”

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

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

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

“You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.”

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

“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.”

“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. One of the most painful things I ever had to do was bury her, realizing that even though I was her hero, I couldn't help her with this last thing. I couldn't help her get better. All I wanted was to give her everything she wanted. Everything my father didn't give her, everything she never had.”

“Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.”

“What I know beyond a shadow of a doubt is that God is with me. I know that. I know that He's always been with me. It is evident in everything I have endured—and the fact that I made it through with some sanity.”

“I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps [in Nutty Professor II], I said, "I'm going to try my hand at a female character." It was the brilliance of Eddie Murphy. I need to write him a check. Say thank you”

“That has never been heard of in the history of television. 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. So what takes most shows eight years to do, we do in a year”