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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
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Emmitt Perry Jr.
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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.
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You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better
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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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we didn't have much, but we had love.
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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.
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I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
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I know I can only do as much as I can do... Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm still 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.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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Life is so precious, such a gift, and that you have to live for you.
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I realized that here's a moment for me to learn so until I learn and understand more about how types of films are done - action, sci-fi - even though I have a desire to do it, I won't go into it until I'm very clear that I can do it and that moment hasn't come yet. Maybe one day I will ready, but for now, I just enjoyed playing the character.
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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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Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.
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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.
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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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Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.
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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.
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The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
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If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.
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You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.
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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.
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