“I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.”
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Famous Tyler Perry Quotes
“It's always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.”
“You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.”
“I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.”
“The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.”
“Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.”
“Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.”
“I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.”
“I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.”
“I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.”
“I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.”
“'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.”
“My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.”
“People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.”
“What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.”