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Life is so precious, such a gift, and that you have to live for you.

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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.
Precious
Gift
Live
Life

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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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If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can’t get it together and you don’t know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don’t stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there’s one way. You can’t have any fear.
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There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.
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I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.
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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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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 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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If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.
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Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.
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I'm good at giving up control to people who know where they're going and what they want to do. I can sit in the back of a car and ride cross-country if you know where you're going and you know how to take me there.
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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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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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Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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we didn't have much, but we had love.
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I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.
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What excites me? Had you asked me that question a few years ago, the answer would’ve rolled right off my tongue. Today, I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.
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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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It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.
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'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
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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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