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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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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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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'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 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 don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.
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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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It's a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accomplished so much with the network, and I'm excited to work with her to be a part of its continued growth.
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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'm just enjoying my life.I suggest you try it.
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What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.
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Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.
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I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
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I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.
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Life is so precious, such a gift, and that you have to live for you.
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The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
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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.
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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've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.
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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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I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.
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