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What I've learned is you treat women right.

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Tyler Perry
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 14
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
New Orleans
Louisiana
Emmitt Perry Jr.
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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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My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.
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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.
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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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I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.
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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
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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.
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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.
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There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.
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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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'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
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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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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.
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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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As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.
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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 don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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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.
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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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