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" I don't want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do. "
Tyler Perry
Everything
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" I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap. "
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" If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do. "
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" I've always believed in God, from the time I was very, very young. I always knew there was something with me, not necessarily knowing what to call it. "
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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. "
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" The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work. "
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" 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. "
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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 love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette. "
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" 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. "
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Step
" I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard. "
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" 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. "
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Father
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" He who has the gold makes the rules. "
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" I don't like popcorn, and I think it's so annoying when people have popcorn in the theaters. That is the loudest food. "
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Loudest
People
" My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that. "
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" I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey. "
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" Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. "
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" 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. "
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" I've been on 'Oprah' a dozen times, and cried once. "
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" I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like 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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" 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. "
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" I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story. "
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" I definitely do not like Halloween. I don't like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or witches. They're not just my thing. "
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" I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love. "
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" I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement. "
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" 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. "
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Possible
" Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day. "
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" 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. "
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" My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?' "
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