Tyler Perry famous quotes

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#God #Spiritual #People

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

#Jobs #Character #Thinking

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.
-- Tyler Perry

#People #Focus #Critics

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

#Moguls #Really Great #Position

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Happiness #Safe #Happy With Yourself

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Thinking #Wish #Done

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.
-- Tyler Perry

#People #Thousand

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

#Order

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#This Life

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

#Life Lesson #Laughing #People

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

#Giving #Stay Focused #Lanes

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Summer #Jobs #Keys

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Forgiveness #Powerful #Journey

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

#Laughing #People #Guy

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

#Light #People #Waiting

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Successful #People #Black

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

#Dream #People #Upset

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

#Believe #Decision #Together

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

#Mother #Powerful #Distance

What excites me? I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.
-- Tyler Perry

#Uplifting #Moving #Thinking

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

#Growing Up #Moving #Important

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Positivity #Mind #Important

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Long #People #Church

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!
-- Tyler Perry

#Drama #Comedy #Critics

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Secret #Important #Needs

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Pain #People #Childhood

Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.
-- Tyler Perry

#Live Life #Earth #Might

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

#Inspiration #People #Inspire

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
-- Tyler Perry

#Emotion #Helping #Music Is

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Ideas #Water #Giving

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#People #Underdog #Different

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

#Forgiveness #Hurt #Forgiving

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Airplane #Sky #Giving

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Thinking #Skeletons #Dust

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
-- Tyler Perry

#Hurt #Morning #Pain

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

#Husband #Children #Thinking

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.
-- Tyler Perry

#Running #Teacher #Responsibility

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.
-- Tyler Perry

#People #Forgiving #Important

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

#Moving #Heaven #Black

...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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Differences #Causes #Skirts

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

#Dope #Light #Waiting

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

#Black #Black Women

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

#Jealous #People #Jealous People

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

#People #Beats

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys
-- Tyler Perry

#Hurt #Past #Prey

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

#Prey

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

#Misery #Make Yourself Happy #Prey

It's a clear day Sonny, L A N D.
-- Tyler Perry

#Clear

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

#Men #Voice #Honor

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.
-- Tyler Perry

#Running #Attitude #Mistake

There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.
-- Tyler Perry

#Real #People #Grudge

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

#Wall #Labels #Degrees

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

#Focus #Priorities #Matter

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

#People #Stories #Welcome

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.
-- Tyler Perry

#Share

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#People #Grace #Truth Is

True love can come more than once.
-- Tyler Perry

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

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#Suicide #Moving #Thinking

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

#Sexy #Trying #Months

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

#Lows

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

#Trying #Enjoy #Enjoying My Life

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.
-- Tyler Perry

#People #Uniforms #Drag