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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!

Tyler Perry

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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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For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.
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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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I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.
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I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.
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Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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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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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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You put some Vaseline under your eyes at night and under your chin, and you put a little bit on your chest and you'll avoid stretch marks and I'll get you some Vaseline, you can change your oil and fry chicken with it, too, but you best make sure you have something.
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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 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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If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money...
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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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I think that people think when you have money that your problems go away and everything's solved, and it's great and wonderful. You're a perfect human being.
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I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.
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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.
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I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.
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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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we didn't have much, but we had love.
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I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.
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