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" As a member of the Feeding America Entertainment Council, I recognize our mission to spread the word and rally the country in the fight to end hunger. "

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" You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag. "

" I definitely do not like Halloween. I don't like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or witches. They're not just my thing. "

" I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard. "

" The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules. "

" The idea of Christ's love for us all is inspiring to me. "

" My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work. "

" Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. "

" I don't want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do. "

" When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth. "

" There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized. "

" 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. "

" I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me. "

" 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. "

" I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety. "

" I don't like popcorn, and I think it's so annoying when people have popcorn in the theaters. That is the loudest food. "

" My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive. "

" Macaroni and cheese was my mother's special dish. She'd also make jambalaya and dirty rice and bake a ham that would be incredible. And greens. But if you were looking for vegetables and healthy things, there weren't a lot of those. "

" I knew that love was around. I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn't. "

" 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. "

" I love a good breakfast - grits and eggs, French toast, turkey bacon. My grandmother on my father's side used to make tea cakes, and her breakfasts were unbelievable. There was fresh ham, and she would go out to the yard to get fresh eggs. She lived in rural Louisiana, and we'd spend summers with her. "

" I'm not interested in doing 'Star Wars.' It's an amazing movie, but that's not my gift. I tell the stories that I tell that relate to the people who love what I do. That is the place and the path that I know I am supposed to be on. The minute I try and go do something else, it will be amazing to watch how quickly that don't work. "

" As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about. "

" For me, there is a guiding compass that just lives inside of me. Every time I've gone against it, something bad has happened. As long as I stay in line and honor it, it has really been life changing. "

" 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. "

" Norman Lear is my all-time, ultimate hero. He's an amazing man. That's one person I'm looking forward to meeting. What he did, with shows and sitcoms, he's my hero. "

" After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country. "

" I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father. "