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Tyler Perry
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 14
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Emmitt Perry Jr.
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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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Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.
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I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was: God let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother. I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. So, they've already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.
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What I've never wanted to do was allow myself to be put in a box, so I've tried to do a lot of different things so this is a step in trying to do something different so we'll see how it goes. I'm under no illusions that this is slam-dunk. I did the best I could and that's all I can rely on.
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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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My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.
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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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People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.
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I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.
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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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I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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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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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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If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.
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People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.
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You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
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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'm very open to fresh talent, and I love the underdog, people who have been counted out, because they come in with a different type of hunger. I'm all for the underdog, so I'd like to talk to anybody who shows up with that sort of thirst.
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I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.
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