Quotes By Tyler Perry

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.

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

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.

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.

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.

What I've learned is you treat women right.

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.

Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.

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.

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.

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.

I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

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.