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You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better
Tyler Perry
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Tyler Perry
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 14
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Screenwriter
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Television Actor
New Orleans
Louisiana
Emmitt Perry Jr.
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What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.
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I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.
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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.
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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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It's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.
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There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.
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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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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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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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My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
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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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All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.
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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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I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.
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It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
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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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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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I have this huge, huge fan base of people who've never seen a Broadway show, but I think it's a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you're getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.
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...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.
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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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