Quote

Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

Tyler Perry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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.
Stay
Lane
Numbers
Lanes
Care
Hype
Many
Boxes
Great
Supposed
Much
Number
Believe
Office
Ones

More quotes by Tyler Perry

Image
I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.
Tyler Perry
Image
You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one yes from God.
Tyler Perry
Image
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
Tyler Perry
Image
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.
Tyler Perry
Image
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
Image
I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
Tyler Perry
Image
What I've learned is you treat women right.
Tyler Perry
Image
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
Image
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
Image
We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
Tyler Perry
Image
Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
Tyler Perry
Image
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.
Tyler Perry
Image
You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.
Tyler Perry
Image
Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.
Tyler Perry
Image
He who has the gold makes the rules.
Tyler Perry
Image
I thank God for Closed Doors
Tyler Perry
Image
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
Image
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.
Tyler Perry
Image
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
Image
I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.
Tyler Perry