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You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better

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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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Destroy
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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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God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.
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God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.
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My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.
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I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.
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It's always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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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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Flying radio-controlled airplanes [is my guiltiest pleasure]. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. It's a fascinating hobby.
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I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
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I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.
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I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.
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Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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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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When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.
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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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What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.
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When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.
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Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.
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As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.
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I'm just enjoying my life.I suggest you try it.
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