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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.

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Tyler Perry
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 14
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Emmitt Perry Jr.
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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.
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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!
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A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
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I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.
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When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.
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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.
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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.
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I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.
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We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
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You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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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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What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
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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.
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I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
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What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.
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