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" I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio. "

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" My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that. "

" I'm not a social media person; I don't know what's going on unless somebody tells me. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow. "

" I haven't read a book in a very, very long time because, when I'm writing, I don't like to see other people's work. I don't want to see something great and not be able to use it, and I don't want to have any subconscious influences. "

" 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 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. "

" Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them. "

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

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

" I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older. "

" I've been on 'Oprah' a dozen times, and cried once. "

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

" When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fishy that reminds me of that taste, I can't eat. I love Chilean sea bass because I don't taste it there. But salmon? No, no, no. "

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

" Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title. "

" My life has always been - there's never been a middle. Either I had or I didn't. Either I was up or I was down. "

" We are all allowed to support whoever we'd like to in this country. That's the greatest part about being an American - one of them, that is; you know what I mean? "

" I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey. "

" There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on and back in the day when, you know, Ray Charles and Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, they couldn't get into white establishments, so they went on this circuit and toured. They were huge stars in their own community, you know, and that's pretty much my same story. "

" What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom. "

" In order to have the success with 'Empire,' you have to have Fox; you have to have huge P&A. You have to have huge budgets for the show. I'm pretty confident that the budget of 'Empire' is six times what I'm spending on 'Have And Have Nots.' "

" I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love. "