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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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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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When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.
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My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.
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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 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 never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
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Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
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Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!
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Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.
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You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one yes from God.
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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'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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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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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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