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

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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. "

" Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive. "

" 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. "

" Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman. "

" If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. You're holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally. "

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

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

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

" I'm trying to conquer swimming. I'm getting there. I've gotta conquer it. I had a fear of drowning and tunnels and flying. I started flying and got my pilot's license, so I conquered that. Now, I'm onto swimming and tunnels. "

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

" 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'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. "

" I try to write from a point of view with my faith being always present and always there. don't want to write characters where everyone is saved. So this Madea character for me is not saved. "

" I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection. "

" I don't have a writer's room. I write all the shows myself. Ninety-one episodes a season, I'm sitting there at the computer writing and writing and writing because I want the voice to be authentic so that the audience is hearing from me and not other writers. "

" I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing. "

" Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do. "

" 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. "

" Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life. "

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

" 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. "

" I have very simple tastes. An ex-girlfriend used to tell me I have the palate of a kid because there are only five or six foods that I love. And if you rotate them on a regular basis, that's all I need to eat - like arugula, spinach, and grilled chicken. "

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

" 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. "

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