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If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

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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.
Extraordinary
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Black
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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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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.
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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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As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.
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I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.
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It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.
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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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It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.
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Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.
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For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.
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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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There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.
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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 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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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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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 think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.
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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 thank God for Closed Doors
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